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Giorgos Seferis

Geburtstag:13. März 1900
Todesdatum:20. September 1971

Giorgos Seferis war ein griechischer Schriftsteller und Diplomat, der 1963 den Literatur-Nobelpreis erhielt. Er gilt als Hauptinitiator der Generation der 30er-Jahre, die in der Dichtung die Wende zur Moderne vollzog.

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„Ich schau dich mit all dem Licht und Dunkel an, das ich habe "
G. Seferis“

— Giorgos Seferis

„Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of all the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.“

— Giorgos Seferis

„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

„My old friend, what are you looking for?
After years abroad you’ve come back
with images you’ve nourished
under foreign skies
far from you own country.’

‘I’m looking for my old garden;
the trees come to my waist
and the hills resemble terraces
yet as a child
I used to play on the grass
under great shadows
and I would run for hours
breathless over the slopes.’

‘My old friend, rest,
you’ll get used to it little by little;
together we will climb
the paths you once knew,
we will sit together
under the plane trees’ dome.
They’ll come back to you little by little,
your garden and your slopes.’

‘I’m looking for my old house,
the tall windows
darkened by ivy;
I’m looking for the ancient column
known to sailors.
How can I get into this coop?
The roof comes to my shoulders
and however far I look
I see men on their knees
as though saying their prayers.’

‘My old friend, don’t you hear me?
You’ll get used to it little by little.
Your house is the one you see
and soon friends and relatives
will come knocking at the door
to welcome you back tenderly.’

‘Why is your voice so distant?
Raise your head a little
so that I understand you.
As you speak you grow
gradually smaller
as though you’re sinking into the ground.’

‘My old friend, stop a moment and think:
you’ll get used to it little by little.
Your nostalgia has created
a non-existent country, with laws
alien to earth and man.’

‘Now I can’t hear a sound.
My last friend has sunk.
Strange how from time to time
they level everything down.
Here a thousand scythe-bearing chariots go past
and mow everything down“

— Giorgos Seferis

„In our gradually shrinking world, everyone is in need of all the others. We must look for man wherever we can find him. When on his way to Thebes Oedipus encountered the Sphinx, his answer to its riddle was: «Man». That simple word destroyed the monster. We have many monsters to destroy. Let us think of the answer of Oedipus.“

— Giorgos Seferis

„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

„My vantage point must have been somewhere between our little house and the steamer jetty. The sea was exceptionally calm. Lit up by a sun that you could have taken down and put in your knapsack. Everything: Mooring rings on the harbor wall, piles of timber, the arches of the houses, caiques, windows – all of them were faithful, in the way we describe a dog being faithful.“

— Giorgos Seferis

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

— Giorgos Seferis

„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

„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

„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

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

— Giorgos Seferis

„souls shriveled by public sins, each holding office like a bird in its cage“

— Giorgos Seferis

„I don’t want to be anything today; tomorrow, we’ll see.“

— Giorgos Seferis

„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

„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

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