/lit/ - Literature

>one of the GOATs
>completely ignored by /lit/
Fuck this board.

How can English even compete with the beauty of Modern Greek? Our language is pathetic compared to this:

https://youtu.be/tR1gzZml4ow

>The young poet Evmenis
>complained one day to Theocritus:
>"I've been writing for two years now
>and I've composed only one idyll.
>It's my single completed work.
>I see, sadly, that the ladder
>of Poetry is tall, extremely tall;
>and from this first step I'm standing on now
>I'll never climb any higher."
>Theocritus retorted: "Words like that
>are improper, blasphemous.
>Just to be on the first step
>should make you happy and proud.
>To have reached this point is no small achievement:
>what you've done already is a wonderful thing.
>Even this first step
>is a long way above the ordinary world.
>To stand on this step
>you must be in your own right
>a member of the city of ideas.
>And it's a hard, unusual thing
>to be enrolled as a citizen of that city.
>Its councils are full of Legislators
>no charlatan can fool.
>To have reached this point is no small achievement:
>what you've done already is a wonderful thing."