“The aging of my body and my beauty is a wound from a merciless knife.” – C.P. Cavafy “Melancholy of Jason Kleander, Poet in Kommagini, A.D. 595”, translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard.

“Pleasures that were partly real, partly swirling in my mind.” – C.P. Cavafy, “I Went”, translated by Evangelos Sachperoglou.

📖CR; Selected Poems by Constantine P. Cavafy. Translated by Avi Sharon

- C. P. Cavafy

Cavafy’s bedroom from his flat at Rue Lepsius, Alexandria, with the poet’s bed, chairs, a desk and other furniture. Cavafy Archive.

Cavafy tr by Rae Dalven

Ah! do not agonize At what is past deceiving But like a man long since prepared With courage say your last good-byes To Alexandria as she is leaving. — Constantine P. Cavafy Lawrence Durrell's Tower Villa Ambron, Alexandria (demolished September 2017) photograph: Michael Haag

“Scale model of C.P. Cavafy”, by Praxitelis Tzanoulinos (b. 1955), plasticine, 2020. On display at the Cavafy Archive, Athens.

The pioneer Ahmed Morsi at the 1991 opening of his exhibition “Cavafy Suite”, accompanied by Egyptian visual artists Gamil Shafik and Abdel Hady al-Washahy, as well as writers Ibrahim Mansour and Mostafa al-Husseini.

“Now that you've wasted your life” —C.P. Cavafy

“What extract can be discovered from witching herbs.” A poem by C.P. Cavafy, translated by Rae Dalven.

The beginning of Abraham Wasserstein's Judaised rendering of Cavafy's Ithaca

C.P Cavafy Collected Poems

my favourite poem, Ithaka by Cavafy "Keep Ithaka always in your mind. Arriving there is what you’re destined for. But don’t hurry the journey at all."

“Those timely words that saved him: ‘Escape, Mithridatis’.” – C.P. Cavafy, “On the March to Sinopi”, translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard.

New arrival! As someone with very little knowledge of modern Greek poetry, I'm very excited to finally be getting into the work of Cavafy. (Accepting recommendations of more modern Greek stuff in the comments!)

Bronze statuette of a woman with a pitcher, among Cavafy’s personal belongings, on display at the Cavafy Archive, Athens.

WSJ review of new C.P. Cavafy bio. Cavafy Bros, I highly recommend these books, for both Cavafy’s world, and the world of many of his poems: Green’s massive portrait of the Hellenistic Age, and Mansel’s hugely enjoyable, rich portraits of Alexandria, Smyrna, Constantinople, and

“Portrait of C.P. Cavafy”, by Hariclia Alexandridou Stefanopoulou (1889-1963). Pencil on paper, 1932. Cavafy Archive.