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And if the soul
Is to know itself
It is into a soul
That it must look:
The stranger and the enemy, we've seen him in the mirror.
For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.
You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to take the unknown road blindly, stubbornly, and to search for words rooted like the knotted olive tree- let them laugh. And to yearn for the other world to inhabit today's suffocating loneliness, this ravaged present- let them be.
To say what you want to say, you must create another language and nourish it for years with what you have loved, with what you have lost, with what you will never find again.
And a soul
if it is to know itself
must look
into its own soul:
the stranger and enemy, we've seen him in the mirror.
Every morning the warm water reminds me
that I have nothing else alive near me.
I don't want to be anything today; tomorrow, we'll see.
Now that you will leave, now that the day of payment
dawns, now that no one knows
who he will kill and how he will die
take with you the boy who saw the light
under the leaves of that plane tree
and teach him how to study the trees.
I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.
Like a bird with broken wing
that has traveled through wind for years ...
I sleep and my heart stays awake ...
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
