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There in the wilderness I will build my home

"And even if I find myself in the most barren place,
I shall build you a house with stones of the soul and light,
so that the wind may enter, so that the sea may pass,
but nothing will be able to uproot us.
For the true home is not of earth and timber,
but of memory, spirit, and eternal sun."

Odysseas Elytis, “Axion Esti” (1959).

Translation adapted from Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard.