George Barbier, La Belle Helene, 1928 Tearful bird, on sea-kissed Cyprus consecrated to remind me of my country, I moored alone with this fable, if it’s true that it is a fable, if it’s true that mortals will not again take up the old deceit of the gods; if it’s true that in future years …
Salvador Dalì, Sick boy, 1921 He spoke while sitting on what seemed to be the marble remnant of an ancient gate; endless the plain on the right and empty, on the left the last shadows moved down the mountain: “The poem is everywhere. Your voice sometimes travels beside it like a dolphin keeping company for …
William Quiller Orchardson, On the North Foreland, 1890 I regret having let a broad river slip through my fingers without drinking a single drop. Now I’m sinking into the stone. A small pine tree in the red soil is all the company I have. Whatever I loved vanished with the houses that were new last …
Jamie Wyeth, The islander, 1976 Bend if you can to the dark sea forgetting the flute’s sound on naked feet that trod your sleep in the other, the sunken life. Write if you can on your last shell the day the place the name and fling it into the sea so that it sinks. We …
Giorgos Seferis was a Greek poet-diplomat. He was one of the most important Greek poets of the 20th century.
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