Re: Poetry: Ithaca by Cavafy

From: Sean Kenny (seankenny@blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: Tue Jul 23 2002 - 12:03:18 MDT


On Tuesday 23 July 2002 08:56, Anders Sandberg wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 11:09:23AM +0200, Amara Graps wrote:
> > Here is a poem by Cavafy, his most famous, and one of
> > my favorite poems. Happy Sunday.
>
> Beautiful. I found his "Waiting for the Barbarians" a nice response to
> the doomsayer thread:
> http://users.hol.gr/~barbanis/cavafy/barbarians.html

When i lived in Greece we painted a 6 feet high mural of "He Swears" in the
original Greek on our garden wall. I think we must have really identified
with the sentiment at the time. This isn't the first time Cavafy has been a
topic on this list which only goes to show what a great list it is, doesn't
it?



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