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Summer, passing by ...

Hommage á Constantin Cavafy, 1986

Photograph by Yves Paradis

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🌴 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

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Summer, passing by …

Hommage á Constantin Cavafy, 1986

Photograph by Yves Paradis

Have a great Labor Day Weekend …

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#Durrell #Cavafy #MarkAntony

Translated by Lawrence Durrell

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

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

https://m.soundcloud.com/yahia-lababidi/as-much-as-you-can-by?fbclid=IwAR3YREtlMGxqFW485JP1QTPPkuVqtbhVXVwezTgE38vvpv_vqhheD1v3MLM&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

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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

https://m.soundcloud.com/yahia-lababidi/as-much-as-you-can-by?fbclid=IwAR3YREtlMGxqFW485JP1QTPPkuVqtbhVXVwezTgE38vvpv_vqhheD1v3MLM&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

#greece #poetry #soundcloud #queer #reading #ThrowbackThursday #thursday #life

Here’s the whole #Cavafy poem in English

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51296/ithaka-56d22eef917ec