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C.P. Cavafy

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“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

CCavafy's tweet image. “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
CCavafy's tweet image. “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

The Trianon Café was a favourite haunt of Cavafy’s — the floors above housed the offices of the Third Circle of Irrigation, where he worked as a clerk.

اسكندرية جمال لا يقارن 💫♥️



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If you ever wondered what Cleopatra really looked like, this is the best answer together with Mark Antony on one of her best preserved coins in her late 30s & looking very Greek: up for auction by Numismatica Genevensis on 24th November with a start of 100,000 CHF.

aniketos0's tweet image. If you ever wondered what Cleopatra really looked like, this is the best answer together with Mark Antony on one of her best preserved coins in her late 30s & looking very Greek: up for auction by Numismatica Genevensis on 24th November with a start of 100,000 CHF.

Photographic portrait of Cavafy sporting glasses, a three-piece suit, and a necktie. The photograph was taken by the Fettel & Bernard studio in Alexandria and is dated around 1910-1911. Cavafy Archive, Athens.

CCavafy's tweet image. Photographic portrait of Cavafy sporting glasses, a three-piece suit, and a necktie. The photograph was taken by the Fettel & Bernard studio in Alexandria and is dated around 1910-1911. Cavafy Archive, Athens.

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What’s the point of senators making laws now? Once the barbarians are here, they’ll do the legislating.


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Bird’s-Eye View of Constantinople (1572) – A famous panoramic engraving of Constantinople (Istanbul) from Civitates Orbis Terrarum

vintagemapstore's tweet image. Bird’s-Eye View of Constantinople (1572) – A famous panoramic engraving of Constantinople (Istanbul) from Civitates Orbis Terrarum

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Green Man foliate head (mosaic fragment). Culture: Byzantine (Eastern Roman). Place of origin: Great Palace of Justinian, Constantinople (modern Istanbul). Date: c. 6th century AD. Medium: stone and glass tesserae.

archaeologyart's tweet image. Green Man foliate head (mosaic fragment). Culture: Byzantine (Eastern Roman). Place of origin: Great Palace of Justinian, Constantinople (modern Istanbul). Date: c. 6th century AD. Medium: stone and glass tesserae.

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"Vue de Pera, Galata et... Constantinople" Dessonville (1721) Bibliothèque nationale de France

ByzantineLegacy's tweet image. "Vue de Pera, Galata et... Constantinople" Dessonville (1721)
Bibliothèque nationale de France

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Somewhere in the heart of experience there is an order and a coherence which we might surprise if we were attentive enough, loving enough, or patient enough. Will there be time? — Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet

DurrellSociety's tweet image. Somewhere in the heart of experience there is an order and a coherence which we might surprise if we were attentive enough, loving enough, or patient enough.

Will there be time?

— Lawrence Durrell

The Alexandria Quartet

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البنك الأهلى المصري — فرع طوسون ، الإسكندرية

Alexandria_egy1's tweet image. البنك الأهلى المصري 
— فرع طوسون ، الإسكندرية

A guide to the London Zoo (1898) in English with detailed information about the gardens and facilities of the Zoo. From Cavafy’s library. Cavafy Archive.

CCavafy's tweet image. A guide to the London Zoo (1898) in English with detailed information about the gardens and facilities of the Zoo. From Cavafy’s library. Cavafy Archive.
CCavafy's tweet image. A guide to the London Zoo (1898) in English with detailed information about the gardens and facilities of the Zoo. From Cavafy’s library. Cavafy Archive.

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Through fantasy, through hallucination, he tries to find his lips in the lips of other young men.


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A reconstruction and a map of Constantinople! One can see the placements of the forums and some of the major landmarks of the Queen of Cities

RomeInTheEast's tweet image. A reconstruction and a map of Constantinople! One can see the placements of the forums and some of the major landmarks of the Queen of Cities

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La duermevela del otoño y el invierno invita a leer a numerosos poetas; uno de ellos es Constantino Cavafis, cuya sensibilidad mediterránea se entrelaza con la herencia poética de la Antigüedad. Una poesía luminosa, como el sol que ilumina Chipre o las blancas casas de Miconos.

LucianoWrial's tweet image. La duermevela del otoño y el invierno invita a leer a numerosos poetas; uno de ellos es Constantino Cavafis, cuya sensibilidad mediterránea se entrelaza con la herencia poética de la Antigüedad. Una poesía luminosa, como el sol que ilumina Chipre o las blancas casas de Miconos.

“Pharos and Pharillon” (1923) by E. M. Forster featuring a handwritten dedication by the author to Cavafy. This edition includes the chapter “The Poetry of C. P. Cavafy”, which contains translations of Cavafy’s poems in English. Cavafy Archive.

CCavafy's tweet image. “Pharos and Pharillon” (1923) by E. M. Forster featuring a handwritten dedication by the author to Cavafy. This edition includes the chapter “The Poetry of C. P. Cavafy”, which contains translations of Cavafy’s poems in English. Cavafy Archive.

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And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it.


“And now what’s to become of us without barbarians.” – C.P. Cavafy, “Waiting for the Barbarians”, translated by @DAMendelsohnNYC

CCavafy's tweet image. “And now what’s to become of us without barbarians.”

– C.P. Cavafy, “Waiting for the Barbarians”, translated by @DAMendelsohnNYC

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Here, as a lucky charm, is a line written on the very desk where Kavafis wrote 'The Barbarians' and 'The City'. — Lawrence Durrell, writing to Henry Miller (Alexandria, October 1977) photograph: Dimitri Papadimos

DurrellSociety's tweet image. Here, as a lucky charm, is a line written on the very desk where Kavafis wrote 'The Barbarians' and 'The City'.

— Lawrence Durrell, writing to Henry Miller (Alexandria, October 1977)

photograph: Dimitri Papadimos

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Alone like that for so many hours, he’d also begun to have disturbing thoughts about the immoral life he was living.


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