Giorgos Seferis

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

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

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. ”