1934 published the first book of poetry, Tractor.
1936, he wrote a long poem "Epidafios" for the tobacco workers' strike in Thessaloniki, which was highly praised by the great poet palamas.
During World War II, he devoted himself to the resistance movement. After World War II, he was imprisoned twice and his works were banned. It was not until the early 1970s that his works were published. Rizos was diligent and productive all his life. So far, he has published nearly 100 volumes of poems and other literary works, becoming the most widely read great poet in Greece in the 20th century. Many of his poems were set to music and widely sung, which had a worldwide influence.
He has won many international literary prizes such as Lenin Peace Prize (1977) and has been a candidate for Nobel Prize in Literature for many times. He picked up something that didn't match-a stone,
A broken tile, two burnt matches,
The rotten nails on the opposite wall,
Leaves floating on the window, flowerpots soaked in water
Dripping water, that little straw
The wind that blew into your hair last night-he took them away.
In his backyard, he almost built a tree.
Poetry is in this "almost". Can you see it?