From above the clouds look smaller
"I remember few things.
Houses, words, courtyards—
all shrink when you look at them from afar.
The sea remains,
and a few broken statues
to remind us that we once existed."
George Seferis, Mythistorema (1935).
English translation: Theodore Stephanides & Rex Warner, George Seferis: Collected Poems 1924–1955, Princeton University Press, 1969.
