Mar 16, 2014
I ask nothing else but to speak simply, to be granted this grace. Because our song has become overloaded with so many kinds of music that slowly it is sinking and our art has been overlaid so heavily that the gold has eaten away its face and it is time we spoke the few words we have because tomorrow our souls set sail.
George Seferis, from “An Old Man on the Riverbank,” in A Levant Journal, trans. by Roderick Beaton (Ibis Editions, 2007)