George Seferis's best-known lines (with the poem)
The top 3 according to 33 votes from people: With what heart, what breath, / what longings and what passion / we lived our life: a mistake! / So we changed our life. · And if I speak to you in fables and parables / it is because it is gentler for you to hear them. · Each one dreams apart and does not hear the nightmare of the others.. (Updated Jun 4, 2023.)
From "Denial", set to music by Theodorakis, to "Wherever I travel, Greece wounds me": the lines everyone knows by George Seferis (1900–1971), the first Greek Nobel laureate, with the title of each poem.
Automatically translated (original in Ελληνικά). See the original
Top 12
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With what heart, what breath, / what longings and what passion / we lived our life: a mistake! / So we changed our life.
Poem "Denial" (1931).
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2
And if I speak to you in fables and parables / it is because it is gentler for you to hear them.
Poem "Last Stop", Logbook II (1945).
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3
Each one dreams apart and does not hear the nightmare of the others.
Poem "Salamis in Cyprus".
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4
On the secret seashore / white like a pigeon / we thirsted at noon: / but the water was brackish.
Poem "Denial" (1931).
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5
Memory, wherever you touch it, hurts.
Poem "Memory".
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6
The stranger and the enemy, we saw him in the mirror.
Poem "Argonauts".
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The heroes move ahead in the dark.
Poem "Last Stop", Logbook II (1945).
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8
I want nothing more than to speak simply, to be granted that grace.
Poem "An Old Man on the River Bank", Logbook II (1945).
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9
What has passed has passed rightly.
Poem "Summer Solstice".
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10
It is no great thing to climb, but it is very hard to change.
Poem "Piazza San Nicolò", Logbook I (1940).
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11
Wherever I travel, Greece wounds me.
Poem "In the Manner of G. S.".
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12
If pain is human, we are not human beings only in order to suffer.
Poem "An Old Man on the River Bank", Logbook II (1945).
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