Constantine P. Cavafy

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— Constantine P. Cavafy

You won't find a new country, won't find another shore. you've destroyed it everywhere in the world.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

When setting out upon your way to Ithaca, full of adventure, full of lore.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

Body, remember not only how much you were loved, trembling for you in voices.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

People of Kommagini, let the glory of Antiochos, everything beyond that belongs to the gods.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

The Spartans weren't to be led That's certainly one point of view. Quite understandable.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

The days of the future stand in front of us Golden and warm and lively little candles.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

I look before me at my lighted candles, How quickly the candles multiply that have been put out.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

And from this marvellous pan-Hellenic expedition, the great new Hellenic world.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

He wasn’t completely wrong, poor old Gemistus in wanting us, telling us to become pagan once again.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum?The barbarians are due here today.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

Why have our two consuls and praetors come out today and things like that dazzle the barbarians.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

Why this sudden bewilderment, this confusion? Those people were a kind of solution.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

I'm practically broke and homeless. this fatal city with its extravagant life.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

Whatever job they give me, if they frustrate me, it's not my fault.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

One of the three will want me anyway. I would gladly have gone along with him.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

The frivolous can call me frivolous. the Holy Fathers, or the Scriptures, or the Canons of the Councils.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

The holy Cross goes forward; it brings joy and consolation the strength, the salvation of the universe, the Cross.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

The empire is delivered at last. reigns no longer.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

He knows he’s aged a lot: he sees it, feels it. that cheat who said: “Tomorrow. You have plenty of time.”

— Constantine P. Cavafy

He remembers impulses bridled, the joy now mocks his senseless caution.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, by too much activity and talk.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

The love they felt wasn’t, of course, what it once had been; But to be separated, that wasn’t what they themselves wanted.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

Of what’s to come the wise perceive the people hear nothing whatsoever.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

Don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now, don’t degrade yourself with empty hopes like these.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

When they saw Patroklos dead by this work of death they had to look at.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

Immoral to a degree — and probably more than a degree — his graceless prudery, his ridiculous beard.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

Things impolitic and dangerous: Enthusiasm for the ancient gods

— Constantine P. Cavafy

The matter, says Mardonios, has gone too far, and everyone marvels at his Christian piety.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

His friends weren’t Christians; that much was certain. They were, after all, Greeks. Nothing in excess, Augustus.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

That we’ve broken their statues, their souls still keep your memory.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

He who hopes to grow in spirit This way he'll grow virtuously into wisdom.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

Roses by the head, jasmine at the feet — a night of sensual pleasure, or one of its radiant mornings.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

A month passes by and brings another month. And tomorrow ends up no longer like tomorrow.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

Nero wasn’t worried at all when he heard to cope with future dangers.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

And in Spain Galba Galba, the old man in his seventy-third year.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

Guard, O my soul, against pomp and glory. the more searching and careful you need to be.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

If you are one of the truly elect, be careful how you attain your eminence.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

Honor to those who in the life they lead yet without hating those who lie.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

One candle is enough. Its gentle light when the Shades arrive, the Shades of Love.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

It will be a great relief when a window opens. Who knows what new things it will expose?

— Constantine P. Cavafy

Try to keep them, poet, Put them, half-hidden, in your lines.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

From all I did and all I said let no one try to find out who I was.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

From my most unnoticed actions, from these alone will I be understood.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

The greatest gods of our glorious Greece that they were frightened by a gesture.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

He was a quiet, gentle man, was never precisely explained.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

On hearing about powerful love, respond, be moved remember how much your imagination created for you.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

How much we’ll tell down there, how much, we’ll disclose freely and clearly down there.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

As the shores of Ithaca gradually Coldly, devoid of love.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

Now the longed-for signal has appeared. Yet when happiness comes of hope and expectation.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

Of course many people will have much to say. can always be found at a moment's notice.

— Constantine P. Cavafy