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Ritsos, Yiannis – Selected Poems - About Colours
Identifier
029410
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
From Selected Poems, tr. N. Stangos (1974)
About Colours
He must, he said, avoid colours. In the last resort,
only chestnut brown and ash grey with off-white spaces.
Tried tones. Seriousness. But his mouth
was deep red and a pale blue-mauve shadow
showed between his lower lip and chin.