Amorgos

'As he did not write anything else, it was as if with 'Amorgos' he indirectly expressed the notion about the nature of a work of art that its core contains a seed of death... In 'Amorgos' the world is what it appears to be - made neither for joy nor for sorrow - just open to man's tendency to capture images' - Eugene Aranitsis'Nikos Gatsos was a war-time poet. 'Amorgos'... is almost all that he ever wrote. It hit his generation like a thunderbolt... He was undoubtedly by this time a great master of poetry in many languages, but it was into Greek traditions, folklore and poetry of the oral tradition, that he dug to find his roots. He was as fresh as a waterfall.' - Peter Levi