"The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their oars in the hold of the earth. But the more select, the captains, harken to a Siren within them... and royally squander their lives with her."
Nikos Kazantzakis was a Greek novelist, poet, and philosopher, widely known for works such as Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ. He is considered one of the major figures of modern Greek literature.