{"id":68053,"date":"2014-03-13T17:30:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T21:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=68053"},"modified":"2014-03-13T16:15:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T20:15:55","slug":"something-mythical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/13\/something-mythical\/","title":{"rendered":"Something Mythical"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Seferis was born on this day in 1900.<\/em>\u00a0 \"seferis-g\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Seferis in 1957. Photo: The Educational Foundation of the Greek National Bank<\/p><\/div>\n

SEFERIS<\/p>\n

You know, the strange thing about imagery is that a great deal of it is subconscious, and sometimes it appears in a poem, and nobody knows wherefrom this emerged. But it is rooted, I am certain, in the poet\u2019s subconscious life, often of his childhood, and that\u2019s why I think it is decisive for a poet: the childhood that he has lived \u2026 When I was a child I discovered somewhere in a corner of a sort of bungalow we had in my grandmother\u2019s garden\u2014at the place where we used to spend our summers\u2014I discovered a compass from a ship which, as I learned afterwards, belonged to my grandfather. And that strange instrument\u2014I think I destroyed it in the end by examining and re-examining it, taking it apart and putting it back together and then taking it apart again\u2014became something mythical for me.<\/p>\n

\u2014George Seferis, the Art of Poetry No. 13<\/a><\/p>\n

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