My favourite Cavafy poem is a slightly obscure one. It has always spoken to me on a deeply spiritual level. As much as you can by C. P. Cavafy Even if you cannot shape your life as you want it, at least try this as much as you can; […]
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Hi. My name is also V. It’s not really. That’s not even a real name! My name is Vangelis. Unless you actually check my ID, which says that my name is Evangelos. It is about at this point that people either think I am pulling their leg, or just give […]
This is the best and most famous poem by Cavafy. Once, in London, I saw this poem pinned on the wall in the home of a French girl I was visiting. In a Spanish translation! Apparently, a Colombian guy had given it to her and told her it was his […]
It is a question I have to answer almost on a daily basis for quite a while. Everywhere I go, as soon as people find out I am Greek, they ask: what is going on with Greece? There is strong pro-European sentiment in Greece, despite the trouble. In case you […]
The city by C. P. Cavafy translated By Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard You said: “I’ll go to another country, go to another shore, find another city better than this one. Whatever I try to do is fated to turn out wrong and my heart lies buried like something dead. […]