29th April 2017

Antología poética - C P Cavafis, Constantino P Cavafis, Constantino P. Cavafis

When you set sail for Ithaca,
wish for the road to be long,
full of adventures, full of knowledge.

 

Constantinos P. Cavafis

 

Though he spent most of his life in Egypt, Constantine Cavafy (born April 29, 1863) was a Greek-language poet whose work helped revive interest in Greek poetry and was celebrated by English writers like T.S. Eliot and E.M. Forster.