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Giorgos Seferis

1900-1971 ,  Greek poet, Nobel 1963
Giorgos SeferisBorn in Smyrna, Anatolia, Ottoman Empire.
Greek poet, essayist, and diplomat who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963.

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Quotations

In this country, where we are all so tragically self-taught…

The memory hurts wherever you touch it.

Quotes in Verse

There is no immaculate conception in art.

What is God? And what is not God? And what is in between?

The secrets of the sea are forgotten at the seashore.

I'm sorry I let go
a wide river between my fingers
without drinking a drop.


So much pain so much life
they went to the abyss
for an empty shirt, for a Helen.


Wherever I travel, Greece hurts me.

We saw the stranger and the enemy in the mirror.

No matter how far I look, I see kneeling people
–like they are praying.


To feel nostalgia for you place
being in your place
nothing is more bitter.


Deleting a piece from the past is like deleting a corresponding piece from the future.


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