Quotes from Giorgos Seferis

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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