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The Complete Poems of C.P. Cavafy

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Daniel Mendelsohn

Год написания книги

2018

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nor will you feel superior—superior how?—

when, in Alexandria, Theodotus brings you,

upon a charger that’s been stained with blood,

poor wretched Pompey’s head.

And do not take it for granted that in your life,

restricted, regimented, and mundane,

such spectacular and terrifying things don’t exist.

Maybe at this very moment, into some neighbor’s

nicely tidied house there comes—

invisible, immaterial—Theodotus,

bringing one such terrifying head.

[<1911; 1915]

Monotony

On one monotone day one more

monotone, indistinct day follows. The same

things will happen, then again recur—

identical moments find us, then go their way.

One month passes bringing one month more.

What comes next is easy enough to know:

the boredom from the day before.

And tomorrow’s got to where it seems like no tomorrow.

[1898; 1908]

Ithaca

As you set out on the way to Ithaca

hope that the road is a long one,

filled with adventures, filled with discoveries.

The Laestrygonians and the Cyclopes,

Poseidon in his anger: do not fear them,

you won’t find such things on your way

so long as your thoughts remain lofty, and a choice

emotion touches your spirit and your body.

The Laestrygonians and the Cyclopes,

savage Poseidon; you won’t encounter them

unless you stow them away inside your soul,

unless your soul sets them up before you.

Hope that the road is a long one.

Many may the summer mornings be

when—with what pleasure, with what joy—

you first put in to harbors new to your eyes;

may you stop at Phoenician trading posts

and there acquire the finest wares:

mother-of-pearl and coral, amber and ebony,

and heady perfumes of every kind:

as many heady perfumes as you can.

Many Egyptian cities may you visit

that you may learn, and go on learning, from their sages.

Always in your mind keep Ithaca.

To arrive there is your destiny.

But do not hurry your trip in any way.

Better that it last for many years;