Quotes from George Seferis

Wherever I travel Greece wounds me.

As pineskeep the shape of the windeven when the wind has fled and is no longer there,so wordsguard the shape of maneven when man has fled and is no longer there.

We were searching to rediscover the first seedso that the ancient drama could begin again.

Three yearswe waited intently for the heraldclosely watchingthe pines the shore and the stars.

Each of us earns his death, his own death, which belongs to no one else and this game is life.

Sometimes it crosses my mind that the things I write here are nothingother than images that prisoners or sailors tattoo on their skin.