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Souls shriveled by public sins, each holding office like a bird in its cage

Every morning the warm water reminds me
that I have nothing else alive near me.

They were lovely, your eyes, but you didn't know where to look.

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.

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

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

Leaves like rusty tin
for the desolate mind that has seen the end-
the barest glimmerings.
Leaves aswirl with gulls
made wild by winter.

I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.

I watched you with all the light and darkness I have
Giorgos Seferis

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.

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

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.

I don't want to be anything today; tomorrow, we'll see.