Symmetry and absolute peace
“Wherever I travel Greece wounds me.
For the pines in the wind and the waves of the sea,
for the small harbor that stands serene at dusk.”
George Seferis, Logbook III (Ημερολόγιο Καταστρώματος Γ΄, 1955).
Translation by Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard, in
George Seferis: Collected Poems, Princeton University Press, 1995.
