Alexandros Panagoulis (1939–1976) Greek politician and poet
Promise, written in Military Prisons of Bogiati February 1972.
Poetry, Vi scrivo da un carcere in Grecia (I write you from a prison in Greece) (1974)
“Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.”
Lovel the Widower (1860), Ch. 6.
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