Poetry
Lost Worlds (Mythistorima, Μυθιστόρημα, 1935)
How can you gather together
the thousand fragments
of each person?
What's wrong with the rudder?
The boat inscribes circles
and there's not a single gull.
The world sinks:
hang on, it'll leave you
alone in the sun.
You write:
the ink grew less,
the sea increases.
The body that hoped to flower like a branch,
to bear fruit, to become like a flute in the frost -
imagination has thrust it into a noisy bee-hive
so that musical time can come and torture it.
Giorgos or George Seferis (Γιώργος Σεφέρης, the pen name of Georgios Seferiades (Γεώργιος Σεφεριάδης); March 13 (O.S. February 29) 1900 – September 20, 1971), was a Greek poet and diplomat.
Seferis was born in Vourla near Smyrna in Asia Minor, Ottoman Empire (now İzmir, Turkey). His father, Stelios Seferiadis, was a lawyer, and later a professor at the University of Athens.
Seferis completed his secondary school education in Athens. He continued his studies in Paris from 1918 to 1925, studying law at the Sorbonne.
His collections of poetry include Strophe (Turning Point, 1931), E Sterna (The Cistern, 1932), Mythistorima (1935), and Logbook I, Logbook II, and Logbook III (1940, 1945, 1955).
He had a long and successful diplomatic career, during which he held posts in England (1931–1934) and Albania (1936–1938). He was appointed minister to Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq (1953–1956), and was Royal Greek Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1961.
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