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
Strong, Cunning, Achieve, Dose
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
- Giorgos Seferis
Teach, Him, Read, Everything Else
I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.
- Giorgos Seferis
Think, I Think, Swedish, Greece
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.
- Giorgos Seferis
My Life, Influenced, Been, Lambs
For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.
- Giorgos Seferis
Small, Nor, Large, Exists
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