Giorgos Seferis

Greece
13 Mar 1900 // 20 Sep 1971
Writer, Poeta

I am a monotonous and obstinate man who, for twenty years, has not ceased to say the same things over and over again.

Presentation at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, 1963


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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays