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Константинос Кавафис — поэт из Александрии, широко признанный величайшим из всех, писавших на новогреческом языке. При жизни опубликовал 154 стихотворения. Бо́льшая часть стихотворного наследия была создана Кавафисом, когда ему было уже за сорок.

✵ 29. Апрель 1863 – 29. Апрель 1933
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“Its councils are full of Legislators
no charlatan can fool.”

Constantine P. Cavafy

The First Step http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=145&amp;cat=1 <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992) <br class="br">Контексте: Just to be on the first step<br>should make you happy and proud.<br>To have come this far is no small achievement:<br>what you have done is a glorious thing.<br>Even this first step<br>is a long way above the ordinary world.<br>To stand on this step<br>you must be in your own right<br>a member of the city of ideas.<br>And it is a hard, unusual thing<br>to be enrolled as a citizen of that city.<br>Its councils are full of Legislators<br>no charlatan can fool.

“The frivolous can call me frivolous.
I’ve always been most punctilious about
important things.”

Constantine P. Cavafy

A Byzantine Nobleman in Exile Composing Verses http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=16&amp;cat=1 <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992) <br class="br">Контексте: The frivolous can call me frivolous.<br>I’ve always been most punctilious about<br>important things. And I insist<br>that no one knows better than I do<br>the Holy Fathers, or the Scriptures, or the Canons of the Councils.

“And, for me, the whole of you has been transformed into feeling.”

Constantine P. Cavafy

&quot; In the Same Space http://cavafis.compupress.gr/kave_134.htm&quot; (1929) <br class="br">Контексте: p&gt;I created you while I was happy, while I was sad,<br>with so many incidents, so many details.And, for me, the whole of you has been transformed into feeling.&lt;/p

“Don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now,
work gone wrong, your plans
all proving deceptive — don’t mourn them uselessly.”

Constantine P. Cavafy

The God Abandons Antony http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=12&amp;cat=1 (1911).<br>Variant translations:<br>Like one who’s long prepared, like someone brave,<br>as befits a man who’s been blessed with a city like this,<br>go without faltering toward the window<br>and listen with deep emotion, but not<br>with the entreaties and the whining of a coward,<br>to the sounds — a final entertainment —<br>to the exquisite instruments of that initiate crew,<br>and bid farewell to her, to Alexandria, whom you are losing.<br>As translated by Daniel Mendelsohn (2009).<br>Don&#x27;t mourn your luck that&#x27;s failing now,<br>work gone wrong, your plans<br>all proving deceptive — don&#x27;t mourn them uselessly:<br>as one long prepared, and full of courage,<br>say goodbye to her, to Alexandria who is leaving.<br> Unknown translator http://cavafis.compupress.gr/kave_20.htm <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992) <br class="br">Контексте: Don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now,<br>work gone wrong, your plans<br>all proving deceptive — don’t mourn them uselessly.<br>As one long prepared, and graced with courage,<br>say goodbye to her, the Alexandria that is leaving.<br>Above all, don’t fool yourself, don’t say<br>it was a dream, your ears deceived you:<br>don’t degrade yourself with empty hopes like these.

“Speak not of guilt, speak not of responsibility.”

Constantine P. Cavafy

The Regiment of the Senses http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=296&amp;cat=5 as translated by Manuel Savidis <br class="br">Контексте: Speak not of guilt, speak not of responsibility. When the Regiment of the Senses parades by, with music, and with banners; when the senses shiver and shudder, it is only a fool and and an irreverent person that will keep his distance, who will not embrace the good cause, marching towards the conquest of pleasures and passions.<br>All of morality’s laws – poorly understood and applied – are nil and cannot stand even for a moment, when the Regiment of the Senses parades by, with music, and with banners.

“The days of the future stand in front of us
Like a line of candles all alight —
Golden and warm and lively little candles.”

Constantine P. Cavafy

"Candles" [Κεριά], as translated by Manolis, in Constantine P. Cavafy: Poems (2008) edited by George Amabile

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

Constantine P. Cavafy

Theodotos http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=105&amp;cat=1 <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992)

“One candle is enough. Its gentle light
will be more suitable, will be more gracious
when the Shades arrive, the Shades of Love.”

Constantine P. Cavafy

To Call Up the Shades http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=17&amp;cat=1 <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992)

“Later, in a more perfect society,
someone else made just like me
is certain to appear and act freely.”

Constantine P. Cavafy

Κατόπι — στὴν τελειοτέρα κοινωνία —
κανένας ἄλλος καμωμένος σὰν ἐμένα
βέβαια θὰ φανεῖ κ’ ἐλεύθερα θὰ κάμει.
Hidden Things
Collected Poems (1992)

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

Constantine P. Cavafy

Hidden Things http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=161&amp;cat=4 <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992)

“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.”

Constantine P. Cavafy

When They Come Alive http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=114&amp;cat=1 <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992)

“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.”

Constantine P. Cavafy

As Much As You Can http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=113&amp;cat=1 <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992)

“When setting out upon your way to Ithaca,
wish always that your course be long,
full of adventure, full of lore.”

Constantine P. Cavafy

&quot; Ithaka http://cavafis.compupress.gr/kave_17.htm&quot;, l. 1 (1911)

“A month passes by and brings another month.
Easy to guess what lies ahead:
all of yesterday’s boredom.
And tomorrow ends up no longer like tomorrow.”

Constantine P. Cavafy

Monotony http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=96&amp;cat=1 <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992)

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