Plunged in moonlight, the marbles grew weightless,
like some essence liquefying along with our gaze.
Plunged in ⋮ our gaze.
George Seferis, from the novel Six Nights on the Acropolis (1974)
Βυθισμένα μέσα στο φως του φεγγαριού, τα μάρμαρα έχαναν το βάρος τους,
έμοιαζαν μια ουσία που διαλύεται μαζί με το βλέμμα.
George Seferis was awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Taken from a speech given by the President of the Onassis Foundation – Anthony S. Papadimitriou – at an event celebrating the redesign of the lighting for the Athenian Acropolis and its monuments in 2020.
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(this transpolium lives alone)
