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Giorgos Seferis
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“Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.”
Giorgos Seferis (1900–1971) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Greek poet's odyssey", 17 Jan 1964, LIFE Magazine, Vol. 56, No. 3, Page 75.
Also quoted by: Charles de Gaulle (misattributed)
“I awoke with this marble head in my hands which exhausts my elbows and I do not know where to set it down.”
Giorgos Seferis (1900–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Part of the Mythistorema, used in Theo Angelopoulos' movie Megalexandros and in the opening of Olympic Games in Athens 2004.
“I want no more than to speak simply to be granted that grace. Because we've loaded our songs with so much music that they're slowly sinking and we've decorated our art so much that its features have been eaten away by gold and it's time to say our few words because tomorrow our soul sets sail. ...I think so much these days about the great river, that symbol which moves forward among herbs and greenery and beasts that graze and drink, and men who sow and harvest, great tombs even and small habitations of the dead. That current which goes its way and which is not so different from the blood of men...”
Giorgos Seferis (1900–1971) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An Old Man on the River Bank" (1942) Logbooks I, George Seferis: Collected Poems, 1924-1955 (1967) Tr. , .