Constantin Cavafy citations

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A Byzantine Nobleman in Exile Composing Verses http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=16&amp;cat=1 <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992) <br class="br">Contexte: The frivolous can call me frivolous.<br>I’ve always been most punctilious about<br>important things. And I insist<br>that no one knows better than I do<br>the Holy Fathers, or the Scriptures, or the Canons of the Councils.

&quot; In the Same Space http://cavafis.compupress.gr/kave_134.htm&quot; (1929) <br class="br">Contexte: p&gt;I created you while I was happy, while I was sad,<br>with so many incidents, so many details.And, for me, the whole of you has been transformed into feeling.&lt;/p

The God Abandons Antony http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=12&amp;cat=1 (1911).<br>Variant translations:<br>Like one who’s long prepared, like someone brave,<br>as befits a man who’s been blessed with a city like this,<br>go without faltering toward the window<br>and listen with deep emotion, but not<br>with the entreaties and the whining of a coward,<br>to the sounds — a final entertainment —<br>to the exquisite instruments of that initiate crew,<br>and bid farewell to her, to Alexandria, whom you are losing.<br>As translated by Daniel Mendelsohn (2009).<br>Don&#x27;t mourn your luck that&#x27;s failing now,<br>work gone wrong, your plans<br>all proving deceptive — don&#x27;t mourn them uselessly:<br>as one long prepared, and full of courage,<br>say goodbye to her, to Alexandria who is leaving.<br> Unknown translator http://cavafis.compupress.gr/kave_20.htm <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992) <br class="br">Contexte: Don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now,<br>work gone wrong, your plans<br>all proving deceptive — don’t mourn them uselessly.<br>As one long prepared, and graced with courage,<br>say goodbye to her, the Alexandria that is leaving.<br>Above all, don’t fool yourself, don’t say<br>it was a dream, your ears deceived you:<br>don’t degrade yourself with empty hopes like these.

The Regiment of the Senses http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=296&amp;cat=5 as translated by Manuel Savidis <br class="br">Contexte: Speak not of guilt, speak not of responsibility. When the Regiment of the Senses parades by, with music, and with banners; when the senses shiver and shudder, it is only a fool and and an irreverent person that will keep his distance, who will not embrace the good cause, marching towards the conquest of pleasures and passions.<br>All of morality’s laws – poorly understood and applied – are nil and cannot stand even for a moment, when the Regiment of the Senses parades by, with music, and with banners.

"Candles" [Κεριά], as translated by Manolis, in Constantine P. Cavafy: Poems (2008) edited by George Amabile

A Great Procession of Priests and Laymen http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=87&amp;cat=1 <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992)

Theodotos http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=105&amp;cat=1 <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992)

To Call Up the Shades http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=17&amp;cat=1 <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992)

In The Year 200 B. C. (1931)

&quot; Body, Remember... http://cavafis.compupress.gr/kave_45.htm&quot; (1918)

Source: Waiting for the Barbarians (1904), l. 16

“The Rest I Will Tell to Those Down to Hades” http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=173&amp;cat=4 <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992)

Nero’s Deadline http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=53&amp;cat=1 <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992)

Hidden Things
Collected Poems (1992)

Before Time Altered Them http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=123&amp;cat=1 <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992)

Κατόπι — στὴν τελειοτέρα κοινωνία —
κανένας ἄλλος καμωμένος σὰν ἐμένα
βέβαια θὰ φανεῖ κ’ ἐλεύθερα θὰ κάμει.
Hidden Things
Collected Poems (1992)

Julian in Nicomedia
Collected Poems (1992)

King Claudius http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=163&amp;cat=4 (inspired by the story of Hamlet by William Shakespeare) <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992)

Nero’s Deadline
Collected Poems (1992)

An Old Man
Collected Poems (1992)

Source: To Have Taken The Trouble (1930), l. 18

The Intervention of the Gods http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=235&amp;cat=4 <br class="br">Poems by C. P. Cavafy (2003)

Hidden Things http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=161&amp;cat=4 <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992)

When They Come Alive http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=114&amp;cat=1 <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992)

Second Odyssey http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=329&amp;cat=4, as translated by Walter Kaiser <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992)

Longings http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=45&amp;cat=1 <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992)

As Much As You Can http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=113&amp;cat=1 <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992)

&quot; Ithaka http://cavafis.compupress.gr/kave_17.htm&quot;, l. 1 (1911)

Monotony http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=96&amp;cat=1 <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992)