Top 26 Seferis Quotes

#1. How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

Giorgos Seferis

Seferis Quotes #27531
#2. 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.

Giorgos Seferis

Seferis Quotes #31622
#3. I just find things that work and embellish them.

Lindsey Buckingham

Seferis Quotes #70446
#4. 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.

Giorgos Seferis

Seferis Quotes #79974
#5. They were lovely, your eyes, but you didn't know where to look.

Giorgos Seferis

Seferis Quotes #101047
#6. 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

Seferis Quotes #158980
#7. 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.

Giorgos Seferis

Seferis Quotes #244060
#8. 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.

Giorgos Seferis

Seferis Quotes #474287
#9. 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.

Giorgos Seferis

Seferis Quotes #572147
#10. I don't want to be anything today; tomorrow, we'll see.

Giorgos Seferis

Seferis Quotes #814423
#11. I watched you with all the light and darkness I have
Giorgos Seferis

Giorgos Seferis

Seferis Quotes #875164
#12. For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.

Vincent Van Gogh

Seferis Quotes #914177
#13. And I said, yes, if you think that I avoid bloodshed by standing aside, then I will stand aside.

Kamisese Mara

Seferis Quotes #932578
#14. For me, the creative process for me always starts in a personal place. I step away from my iPod or any records or CDs.

Miguel

Seferis Quotes #941892
#15. Souls shriveled by public sins, each holding office like a bird in its cage

Giorgos Seferis

Seferis Quotes #1050419
#16. 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.

Giorgos Seferis

Seferis Quotes #1074264
#17. Every morning the warm water reminds me
that I have nothing else alive near me.

Giorgos Seferis

Seferis Quotes #1130304
#18. As I said, many. They are passing even now. An endless parade of them. They smile, they bow, a child wags his tongue like a dog's tail. Some of them speak. Do you know the poet George Seferis?

Stephen King

Seferis Quotes #1262160
#19. Professor Severus Snape was Harry's least favorite teacher. Harry also happened to be Snape's least favorite student.

J.K. Rowling

Seferis Quotes #1268978
#20. Not only am I better looking.. I'm just plain better.

Randy Orton

Seferis Quotes #1598750
#21. I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.

Giorgos Seferis

Seferis Quotes #1598851
#22. 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

Seferis Quotes #1606827
#23. 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.

Giorgos Seferis

Seferis Quotes #1607021
#24. For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

Giorgos Seferis

Seferis Quotes #1709733
#25. Like a bird with broken wing
that has traveled through wind for years ...
I sleep and my heart stays awake ...

Giorgos Seferis

Seferis Quotes #1723671
#26. When a mother goes to the store and purchases food for her child, she has the right to know what she is feeding her family.

Bernie Sanders

Seferis Quotes #1835919

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