18 Quotes by Giorgos Seferis

And if the soul Is to know itself It is into a soul That it must look: The stranger and the enemy, we've seen him in the mirror.

A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested.

They were lovely, your eyes, but you didn't know where to look.

Like a bird with broken wing that has traveled through wind for years . . . I sleep and my heart stays awake . . .

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.

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.

They were lovely, your eyes, but you didn’t know where to look.

A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?