 In Athens, he came in contact with the literary circles of the day becoming one of the lifelong friends of fellow poet Odysseus Elytis and published his poems, small in extent and in a classic style, in the magazines "Nea Estia" (1931–32) and "Rythmos" (1933).During that period he also published criticism in "Makedonikes Imeres" (Μακεδονικές Ημέρες), "Rythmos" (Ρυθμός), and "Nea Grammata" (Νέα Γράμματα) (for Kostis Bastias, Myrtiotissa, and Thrasos Kastanakis, respectively).In 1935 he lived in France, in Paris and the South of France.