“I sit up talking till daybreak with the young people and we have almost Athenian evenings, Athenian, I mean, only in their intellectual subtlety and refinement.”

“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."[As quoted in Plutarch's Of Banishment]”

“I attended a symposium, an event named after a fifth century (B.C.) Athenian drinking party in which nonnerds talked about love; alas, there was no drinking, and mercifully, nobody talked about love.”

“Even now I'm well aware that if I allowed myself to listen to him I couldn't resist but would have the same experience again. He makes me admit that, in spite of my great defects, I neglect myself and instead get involved in Athenian politics. So I force myself to block my ears and go away, like someone escaping from the Sirens, to prevent myself sitting there beside him till I grow old.”

“The Athenians, front-fighters of the Greeks, at Marathon destroyed the power of the gold-bearing Medes.”

“„May The Word be a friend of mine, yet we follow up// the different names and fates” (from „The Athenian Circum-Stances”, a text from „Logos”, My Father : My Mother „Imago” poetry book)”