poetry of Kavafis:
''When They Come Alive''
Try to keep them, poet,
those erotic visions of yours,
however few of them there are that can be stilled.
Put them, half-hidden, in your lines.
Try to hold them, poet,
when they come alive in your mind
at night or in the brightness of noon.
those erotic visions of yours,
however few of them there are that can be stilled.
Put them, half-hidden, in your lines.
Try to hold them, poet,
when they come alive in your mind
at night or in the brightness of noon.
(C.P. Cavafy, Collected Poems. Translated by Edmund Keeley and
Philip Sherrard. Edited by George Savidis. Revised Edition. Princeton
University Press, 1992)
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