"The big Yes or No" is a poem I wrote in response to a Cavafy poem. I also give a translation of Cavafy's poem. The Cavafy poem was itself a response to Dante!
https://youtube.com/shorts/Fm_bDUky4YU
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Today's poem:
Cavafy in Compton / Closet Anthem Self-Portrait at 16
- by Robin Coste Lewis
#poetry #attraction #lesbian #RobinCosteLewis #Cavafy #flirtation #cruising
🌴 En manque de soleil ? L'expo « L’#Égypte cosmopolite au temps de #Cavafy (1863-1933) », c'est jusqu'au 15 mars à la #BULAC ! 🇪🇬
👉 En savoir plus : http://www.bulac.fr/node/3271
Today's poem:
If Actually Dead
- by CP Cavafy
https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/742742479260024832/if-actually-dead?source=share
#cavafy #Apollonios #philosophy #disappearance #legend #return #christianity #paganism #OlympianGods
a journey in inches
Love Poem: Cavafy
Timothy Liu
#Poetry #TimothyLiu #Cavafy #LovePoem
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/161342/love-poem-cavafy
Summer, passing by …
Hommage á Constantin Cavafy, 1986
Photograph by Yves Paradis
Have a great Labor Day Weekend …
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Timeless Cavafy...!!!
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RT @CCavafy
“That’s what longings look like when they’ve passed away.”
– C.P. Cavafy, “Longings”, translated by @DAMendelsohnNYC
#poetry #cavafy
https://twitter.com/CCavafy/status/1651920889854713857
Timeless Cavafy...!!!
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😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻
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RT @CCavafy
“Ithaca gave you the beautiful journey;
without her you wouldn’t have set upon the road.”
– C.P. Cavafy was born #OTD April 29, 1863. He died on his 70th birthday, April 29, 1933.
“Ithaca”, translated by @DAMendelsohnNYC
#poetry #cavafy
https://twitter.com/CCavafy/status/1652194376011988994
Of Ionia
That we broke their statues
That we chased them from their temples
By no means did the gods die of this
Oh land of Ionia, you they still love,
You their souls remember still.
As an August morning dawns over you
A living thrum of them quickens through your air
And sometimes, faint, a youthful form,
Indefinite, with rapid step,
Over your hillsides passes
C.P. Cavafy, translation mine #Cavafy #translation
As Much As You Can
And if you can’t shape your life the way you want,
at least try as much as you can
not to degrade it
by too much contact with the world,
by too much activity and talk.
Try not to degrade it by dragging it along,
taking it around and exposing it so often
to the daily silliness
of social events and parties,
until it comes to seem a boring hanger-on.
— #cavafy
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“That blood. It was all part of my love.”
– C.P. Cavafy, “The Bandaged Shoulder”, translated by Don Paterson.
“All that is foreign to me now. I am not that Cleon here.”
– C.P. Cavafy, “The Tomb of Ignatius”, translated by Avi Sharon.
“You said: ‘I’ll go to another land, I’ll go to another sea.
Another city will be found, a better one than this.’”
– Constantine P. Cavafy: Manuscript of “The City” (“H Polis”), Alexandria, 1911.
“In the month of Athyr / Lefkios was laid to rest.”
– C.P. Cavafy, “In the Month of Athyr”, translated by Alex de Voogt.
“Do not attach such importance to yourself.”
– C.P. Cavafy, “Guilt”, translated by John C. Davis.
“They suspected something that they dared not say.”
– C.P. Cavafy, “From the Unpublished History”, translated by @DAMendelsohnNYC@twitter.com
“Those delectations that were half real,
half wrought by my own mind.”
– C.P. Cavafy, “I Went”, translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard.
