To fly in search of purity
“If you must fly,
fly high — where your shadow cannot follow.
Only there the air grows pure.”
George Seferis, Ημερολόγιο Καταστρώματος Β΄ (Log Book II), 1945.
English translation by Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard, George Seferis:
Collected Poems 1924–1955, Princeton University Press, 1969.
