Constantine Cavafy

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- Poet, journalist and civil servant April 29 , 1863 - April 29 , 1933 Amazon Top 10 Quotes by Constantine Cavafy Read full biography

As the shores of Ithaca gradually Faded away behind him And he sailed swiftly westward Toward Iberia and the Pillars of Hercules, Far from every Achaean sea, He felt he was alive once more, Freed...

Constantine Cavafy

Collected Poems - 1992, as translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard; edited by George Savidis, published online at The Official Website of the Cavafy Archive. Second Odyssey - translated by Walter Kaiser.


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How much we’ll tell down there, how much, and how very different we’ll appear. What we protect here like sleepless guards, wounds and secrets locked inside us, protect with such great anxiety day...

Constantine Cavafy

Collected Poems - 1992, as translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard; edited by George Savidis, published online at The Official Website of the Cavafy Archive. The Rest I Will Tell to Those Down to Hades.


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On hearing about powerful love, respond, be moved like an aesthete. Only, fortunate as you’ve been, remember how much your imagination created for you.

Constantine Cavafy

Collected Poems - 1992, as translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard; edited by George Savidis, published online at The Official Website of the Cavafy Archive. On Hearing of Love.


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He was a quiet, gentle man, a man who loved peace (his country had suffered much from the wars of his predecessor), he behaved graciously toward everyone, humble and great alike. Never high-handed,...

Constantine Cavafy

Collected Poems - 1992, as translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard; edited by George Savidis, published online at The Official Website of the Cavafy Archive. King Claudius - inspired by the story of Hamlet by William Shakespeare.


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The greatest gods of our glorious Greece appeared before you. And if they left, don’t think for a minute that they were frightened by a gesture.

Constantine Cavafy

Collected Poems - 1992, as translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard; edited by George Savidis, published online at The Official Website of the Cavafy Archive. Julian at the Mysteries.


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Later, in a more perfect society, someone else made just like me is certain to appear and act freely.

Constantine Cavafy

Collected Poems - 1992, as translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard; edited by George Savidis, published online at The Official Website of the Cavafy Archive. Hidden Things.


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