Sifnos, Amorgos, Alonissos Thassos, Ithaca, Santorini Kos, Ios, Sikinos Axion Esti (Worthy It Is) on the stone ledge opposite the sea, Mirto is standing Just like a beautiful eight or a jug with the sun straw on one hand. Odysseas Elytis (1911-1996), Greek poet, Nobel Prize in Literature 1979 (verses from the poem Axion Esti)