18 Quotes by Giorgos Seferis

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of all the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

¿Qué iban a hacer los desdichados, peleando y bebiendo día y noche sangre emponzoñada de serpientes? Siglos de veneno: generaciones de veneno”.

Kada je na putu u Tebu Edip naišao na Sfingu i kad mu je ona postavila svoju zagonetku, on joj je odgovorio: čovek. Ova jednostavna reč uništila je čudovište. Ima još mnogo čudovišta koja treba da uništimo. Treba da nam je uvek na umu ovaj Edipov odgovor.U ovom svetukoji svakim danom biva sve tešnji, svako od nas oseća potrebu za drugim ljudima. Mi moramo tražiti čoveka svuda gde se on nalazi.

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

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.

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.

I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.

They are children of many men, our words

Leaves like rusty tin for the desolate mind that has seen the end- the barest glimmerings. Leaves aswirl with gulls made wild by winter.