Author: George Seferis
Cited by
- Stephen King (2)
- IN: Salem's Lot (1975) Fiction, Supernatural, American
EPIGRAPH: Old friend, what are you looking for?
After those many years abroad you come
With images you tended
Under foreign skies
Far awar from your own land
FROM: Return of the Exile, (None), Poem, Turkey
- IN: It (1986) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: “Old friend, what are you looking for? After those many years abroad you come With images you tended Under foreign skies Far away from your own land.”
FROM: The Return of the Exile, (None), Poem, Turkey
- John Montague (1)
- IN: Collected Poems (1995) Poetry, Irish
EPIGRAPH: The Greeks say it was the Turks who burned
down Smyrna. The Turks say it was the Greeks.
Who will discover the Truth?
The wrong has been committed.
The important thing is who will redeem it?
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
- O' Grady, Timothy (1)
- IN: Could Read the Sky (1997) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I whispered: memory hurts whenever you touch it.
FROM: NULL, (None), Poem, Greece
- Guy Gavriel Kay (1)
- IN: Tigana (1990) Fantasy, NULL
EPIGRAPH: What can a flame remember? If it remembers a little less than is necessary, it goes out; if it remembers a little more than is necessary, it goes out. If only it could teach us, while it burns, to remember correctly.
FROM: Stratis the Sailor Describes a Man, (None), Poem, Greece