Theodorakis has already touched many lives in many country with his music alone. For those who understand Greek, the combination of his music with Greek poetry has been a lasting inspiration. His own poems were a response to the dramatic events of his life. Scribbled in prison cells and on barren islands, they are the work of a man who had three lives: one of heroic political struggle, one of boundless artistic creativity, and one of private loves and sorrows.