C.P. Cavafy
@CCavafy
Poet-historian
“As you set out on the way to Ithaca hope that the road is a long one, filled with adventures, filled with discoveries.” – Manuscript of Cavafy’s poem “Ithaca”, 1911. Cavafy Archive. #poetry #cavafy #Greece
“I met in the lobby of the hotel Mme Pringo, Mr. Haicalis and his daughters, with whom I exchanged a few polite words. As I did not feel quite well, I did not lunch. I had a copious tea at 3 – eggs, bread and butter. I feel very well now.” – C.P. Cavafy, Phalerum, 27 July 1901.
💫🙏CAVAFY, Premier voyage en Grèce : vos retours « Inventaire à l’air implacable, étiquetage à l’allure stricte, énumération à l’écho algébrique, le journal de Constantin Cavafy tisse avec habileté une toile aux reliefs multiples. Le poète semble semer aventures et expériences…
“Went at 6pm to the Piraeus by tram. Went to the last station & stayed a little at the café High Life. It is a good coffee-house; it has a billiard-room. Walked in the Leoforos Sokratous and the streets leading out of it. Back at the hotel at 8pm.” – C.P. Cavafy, 26 July 1901
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“Yesterday I stayed indoors all day, as I did not feel up to going out. I dined off a plate of soup and 2 eggs in my room. This morning I went to town. I made 2 farewell visits – one to Michaelidis. Made certain small purchases.” – Diary of C.P. Cavafy, Phalerum, 24 July 1901.
“Yesterday Alexander and I went to town and bid good-bye to Thalia and Amalia. Towards 8 p.m. I began to feel unwell and I passed a sleepless night suffering from colics and vomiting; probably due to a glass of stale water that I drank at Zacharatos’.” –C.P. Cavafy, 23 July 1901
O how familiar it is, this little room! Once here, by the door, stood a sofa. . . . Somewhere all these old sticks of furniture Must still be knocking about. . . . I would have never Believed those seven days could last forever. — Cavafy tr. Lawrence Durrell Yannis Tsarouchis
One candle is enough. Tonight the room should not have too much light.
De mi traducción de la Poesía Completa de Cavafis (Pre-Textos 2015).
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“In the afternoon I went with Alexander and Giannopoulo to Kifissia. It takes 40 minutes to go to Kifissia. We got a carriage and drove round the place. Magnificent, really magnificent are the villas and country houses at Kifissia.” – Diary of C.P. Cavafy, Athens, 22 July 1901
Merveille de l’art grec, le camée des Gonzague figure Ptolémée II et Arsinoé II, souverains d’une Égypte grecque alors à son apogée. Ciselés dans une pièce de sardoine, les époux divinisés portent des couronnes de laurier tandis que l’égide se reconnaît sur l’épaule du basileus.…
“Yesterday I called on Grigorios Xenopoulos at 11 Patission Street. He received me in the most cordial manner, praised my poetry, and gave me a copy of his last work. I stayed over an hour. Xenopoulos speaks well, and seems a sincere and good man.” – C.P. Cavafy, 21 July 1901.
So now he spends his days full of anxiety, advising the Persians, explaining what they should do to conquer Greece.
City of Constantinople, new Rome Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Misc. 378; various including Notitia urbis Constantinopolitanae; 1436 CE; Switzerland (Basel); f.84r @BDLSS