Giorgos Seferis Professions : Poet Born : March 13, 1900 Died : September 20, 1971 Browse All Authors Top 11 quotes by Giorgos Seferis For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men. Giorgos Seferis heart men country Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends. Giorgos Seferis strong pride mean Like a bird with broken wing Giorgos Seferis sleep heart inspirational You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to take the unknown road blindly, stubbornly, and to search for words rooted like the knotted olive tree- let them laugh. And to yearn for the other world to inhabit today's suffocating loneliness, this ravaged present- let them be. Giorgos Seferis other-worlds loneliness dark They were lovely, your eyes, but you didn't know where to look. Giorgos Seferis lovely eye looks And if the soul Giorgos Seferis mirrors soul enemy A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested. Giorgos Seferis lambs lions made Leaves like rusty tin Giorgos Seferis tin mind winter I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today. Giorgos Seferis spirit today thinking Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. Giorgos Seferis lion my-life me life How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first? Giorgos Seferis everything you man dare Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors
