Top 32 Giorgos Seferis Quotes
#1. I watched you with all the light and darkness I have
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#2. It was a shit time for you, the worst, but you were there and you saw 'em doin' it. They crawled into this same fuckin' bed with me, so did you, and when you did, you all became mine.
Kristen Ashley
#3. Souls shriveled by public sins, each holding office like a bird in its cage
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#4. I will have one of the cleanest obits of any actress. I never did cheesecake like Ann Sheridan or Betty Grable. I just used my hair.
Veronica Lake
#5. 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.
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#6. Every morning the warm water reminds me
that I have nothing else alive near me.
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#7. Depicting yourself as a whole person on the page doesn't only mean recognizing your role in a bad situation. It means being emotionally authentic. It means showing all of yourself: the shameful parts, the embarrassing parts, the parts that you might regret or that you wish weren't true.
Kerry Cohen
#8. Those who are truly His hear His voice and respond positively to His loving call, even if it means hurt, loss, or ridicule.
Michael L. Henderson
#9. By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
Kate Winslet
#10. Being a drummer, I'm always like, 'Oh, that's got a funky beat. That's cool,' and I like to dance.
Tommy Lee
#11. The philosopher may sometimes love the infinite; the poet always loves the finite. For him the great moment is not the creation of light, but the creation of the sun and moon.
G.K. Chesterton
#12. I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.
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#13. 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.
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#14. And a soul
if it is to know itself
must look
into its own soul:
the stranger and enemy, we've seen him in the mirror.
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#15. I'm indeed a mandasi seller, and I'm proud of it, because the majority of women in Malawi are like us, mandasi sellers.
Joyce Banda
#16. For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.
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#17. Like a bird with broken wing
that has traveled through wind for years ...
I sleep and my heart stays awake ...
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#18. In our town, Halloween was terrifying and thrilling, and there was a whiff of homicide. We'd travel by foot in the dark for miles, collecting candy, watching out for adults who seemed too eager to give us treats.
Rosecrans Baldwin
#19. I don't want to be anything today; tomorrow, we'll see.
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#20. Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
Agnes Smedley
#22. In every corner a gramophone shop
in every shop a hundred gramophones
in every gramophone a hundred records
in every record
an alive person playing with a dead one.
Take the steel needle and separate them
if you can.
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#23. If you want to know the secret of life, learn with enthusiasm and love with all of your heart.
Debasish Mridha
#24. To say what you want to say, you must create another language and nourish it for years with what you have loved, with what you have lost, with what you will never find again.
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#25. You can do the impossible, because you have been through the unthinkable.
Christina Rasmussen
#26. I mean, in any case, that when you really feel something, you face the difficulty of expressing it. And that, after all, forms your style.
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#27. Leaves like rusty tin
for the desolate mind that has seen the end-
the barest glimmerings.
Leaves aswirl with gulls
made wild by winter.
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#28. They were lovely, your eyes, but you didn't know where to look.
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#29. Now that you will leave, now that the day of payment
dawns, now that no one knows
who he will kill and how he will die
take with you the boy who saw the light
under the leaves of that plane tree
and teach him how to study the trees.
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#31. Our friends have left us
Perhaps we never saw them, perhaps
we encountered them when sleep
still brought us very close to the breathing wave
perhaps we search for them because we search for the other life,
beyond the statues.
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#32. How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
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