You have to be a poet (Elder Vasilios Gontikakis, former Abbot of the Monastery of Iviron)

Elder Porfyrios Kavsokalyvitis was a blessing for everyone. An angelic person. A divine child who played. A fragrance which spread and found its way into every soul. Illiterate but extremely wise. A God-inspired poet, a wordsmith who fashioned people. He used to say: ‘You have to be a poet in order to become a Christian.