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

- 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.

- Giorgos Seferis

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, stu…

- Giorgos Seferis

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

- Giorgos Seferis

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

- Giorgos Seferis

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

- Giorgos Seferis

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…

- Giorgos Seferis

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

- Giorgos Seferis

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

- Giorgos Seferis