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luthienne · 1 year

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George Seferis, from Collected Poems; "Memory I" (tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard)

[Text ID: I whispered: memory hurts wherever you touch it,]

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somberous · 4 months

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George Seferis, tr. by Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard from, “Stratis Thalassinos among the Agapanthi.” [ID in alt text]

#george seferis #george seferis: collected poems 1924-55 #stratis thalassinos among the agapanthi #***

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mournfulroses · 13 days

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George Seferis, translated by Rex Warner, from Poems translated from the Greek; "XVI,"

#lit #george seferis #poetry #writings #words #typography #fragments #quotes #selections #p

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theoptia · 2 years

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George Seferis, from Collected Poems 1924-1955; "Stratis Thalassinos Among the Agapanthi"

Text ID: The first thing God made is love / then comes blood / and the thirst for blood

#george seferis #collected poems: 1924-1955 #poetry #greek literature #lit #miscellanea #c #k

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louisegluck · 2 years

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George Seferis, tr. by Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard from, “In the Kyrenia District.”

#george seferis #george seferis: collected poems 1924 55 #in the kyrenia district #***

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cor-ardens-archive · 11 months

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Georgee Seferis, tr. Edmund Keeley, Philip Sherrard

#when i began to grow up the trees tormented me -#!!#george seferis #poetry #m. lit.

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asoftepiloguemylove · 1 year

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i would kill to be the cold tracing your body and shaking your bones

Steven Espada Dawson Elegy for the Four Chambers of My Brother's Heart / Anne Carson Decreation; Lines / George Seferis (tr. Edmund Keeley) from Stratis Thalassinos Among the Agapanth, Collected Poems / Elaine Kahn Romance or the End / @/the-empath-and-the-intuitive (on tumblr) / Virginia Woolf from a letter to Violet Dickinson written January 1909 / @/sweatermuppet (on tumblr) / Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous / unknown

i. Steven Espada Dawson Elegy for the Four Chambers of My Brother's Heart

[ "We're under the same moon and I'm sick / with that knowing." ]

ii. Anne Carson Decreation; Lines

[ Screenshot of a tumblr post by @/xshayarsha with an excerpt from a poem. "How long will it feel like burning, said the child trying to be kind." ]

iii. George Seferis (tr. Edmund Keeley) Startis Thalassinos Among the Agapanth

[ "The first thing God made is love / then comes blood / and the thirst for blood" ]

iv. Elaine Kahn Romance or the End

[ "I have heard it said that love turns people soft but i have never been more brutal." ]

v. @/the-empath-and-the-intuitive (on tumblr)

[ Grainy, washed out image of two statues with smashed in faces. They are turned to face each other. "After love, no one is what they were before." ]

vi. Virginia Woolf from a letter to Violet Dickinson written January 1909

[ Excerpt from a letter written by Virginia Woolf to Violet Dickinson. "I appreciate your concern. None of this is your fault. It's me. It's me and my head. / In winter, I collapse." ]

vii. @/sweatermuppet (on tumblr)

[ Grainy, black and white image of a wolf and male deer pressing their noses together. Words are sporadically placed around the image and are surrounded by a white border. "'cause / ive / always / been / scared / of / loving / someone / just / a / little / bit / more / than / im / loved" ]

viii. Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

[ Screenshot of a tumblr post by @/memoryslandscape with an excerpt from a poem. "I miss you more than I remember you." ]

ix. unknown

[ Screenshot of a forum post by a user named "robin" posted on August 11, 2022. "it gets better, i think. maybe just for a day. maybe just for a song. but there's something there to hold on to." ]

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psalmsofpsychosis · 6 months

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wound and blood seek each other;

// Ingmar Bergman // Georges Bataille. Guilty // Sonya Vatomsky. "Spring Flowers" Salt Is For Curing. // George Seferis. Stratis Thalassinos among the Apapanthi. //

#ingmar bergman #georges bataille #poetry #wound #blood poetry #Sonya Vatomsky #salt is for curing #george seferis #webweaving #web weaving #webweave #web weave #hunger poetry

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julyhighcry · 2 years

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are your web requests open? could i request hating god and god hating you? thank you :)

anne sexton / @existentialterror / @coleridges / @boykeats / katie maria / @jovialtorchlight / chen chen / @asoftwrongness / the mountain goats / george seferis

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apoemaday · 10 months

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Memory I

by George Seferis

And I with only a reed in my hands. The night was deserted, the moon waning, earth smelled of the last rain. I whispered: memory hurts wherever you touch it, there's only a little sky, there's no more sea, what they kill by day they carry away in carts and dump behind the ridge.

My fingers were running idly over this flute that an old shepherd gave to me because I said good evening to him. The others have abolished every kind of greeting: they wake, shave and start the day's work of slaughter as one prunes or operates, methodically, without passion: sorrow's dead like Patroclus, and no one makes a mistake.

I thought of playing a tune and then I felt ashamed in front of the other world the one that watches me from beyond the night from within my light woven of living bodies, naked hearts and love that belongs to the Furies as it belongs to man and to stone and to water and to grass and to the animal that looks straight into the eye of its approaching death.

So I continued along the dark path and turned into my garden and dug and buried the reed and again I whispered: some morning the resurrection will come, dawn's light will grow red as trees blossom in spring, the sea will be born again, and the wave will again fling forth Aphrodite. We are the seed that dies. And I entered my empty house.

#poetry #george seferis #memory I #tr. edmund keeley and philip sherrard

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luthienne · 1 year

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George Seferis, from Collected Poems; "Last Stop" (tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard)

#george seferis #selected poems of george seferis #last stop #words #poetry #typography #!!!#literally exactly exactly #unsayable #on fairy tales #the great wound #grief is a circular staircase #there’s no return from a red like that #on memory #on language #greek literature #id in alt text #breadcrumbs

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somberous · 5 months

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George Seferis, tr. by Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard from, “Memory I.” [ID in alt text]

#george seferis #george seferis: collected poems 1924-55 #poetry #memory i #***

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mournfulroses · 10 days

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George Seferis, translated by Rex Warner, from Poems translated from the Greek; "Argonauts,"

#lit #george seferis #poetry #words #quote #writings #fragments #typography #selections #argonauts #p

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theoptia · 2 years

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George Seferis, from Collected Poems 1924-1955; "Stratis Thalassinos Among the Agapanthi"

Text ID: The dead know the language of flowers only; so they keep silent

#george seferis #collected poems: 1924-1955 #poetry #greek literature #lit #miscellanea

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louisegluck · 2 years

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George Seferis, tr. by Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard from, “The House Near the Sea.” [ID in alt text]

#george seferis #george seferis: collected poems 1924 55 #the house near the sea #***

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hauntedbythenarrative · 2 years

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Nostalgia

Christina’s world, Andrew Wyeth//Those Sweet and Painful Memories, Danny Castillones Sillada//When we were young, The Killers//Youngblood, Five Seconds of Summer//If My Body Could Speak; “Concerns from a hot-boxed jeep”, Blythe Baird//Little talks, Of Monsters and Men//Maureen Paley//From Collected Poems; “The Return of the Exile,” George Seferis//Circle Game, Joni Mitchell//Anne Magill//Head in the clouds, Hayd//A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit//The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020), Mike Flanagan

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