Giorgos Seferis famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Strong #Mean #Pride
For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.
-- Giorgos Seferis

#Country #Heart #Men
Like a bird with broken wing that has traveled through wind for years . . . I sleep and my heart stays awake . . .
-- Giorgos Seferis

#Inspirational #Heart #Sleep
You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to take the unknown road blindly, stubbornly, and to search for words rooted like the knotted olive tree- let them laugh. And to yearn for the other world to inhabit today's suffocating loneliness, this ravaged present- let them be.
-- Giorgos Seferis

#Loneliness #Dark #Other Worlds
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

#Mirrors #Soul #Enemy
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

#Winter #Mind #Tin
I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.
-- Giorgos Seferis

#Thinking #Today #Spirit
They were lovely, your eyes, but you didn't know where to look.
-- Giorgos Seferis

#Eye #Lovely #Looks
A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested.
-- Giorgos Seferis

#Lambs #Lions #Made

I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.
We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks... With enough of us, around the world, weâ€™ll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge â€” weâ€™ll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us?
People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
Patience will benefit you in every hour, every time and every opportunity. It helps you to overcome your opponent, howsoever strong he may be. It will help you in times of distress and hardships, in battles and in war and peace.
There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.
Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.
Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.

Giorgos Seferis famous quotes

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