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Constantine Petrou Cavafy
The Cavafy Archive website was created by the Center for Neo-Hellenic Studies and is owned by the Onassis Foundation. It contains all of Cavafy’s major works in the translation of Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard (edited by G.P. Savidis)- Sophie Hannah Official Sophie Hannah Website
Fernando Pessoa
The Fernando Pessoa House has a unique treasure: the private library of this great literary figure. It’s not very often one can find an entire library belonging to a writer with Pessoa’s universal dimension.
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THE KEEPER OF FLOCKS – XXI
If I could caress in my mouth the whole world And feel-her full bodied taste, And if the earth was a thing to bite upon Would I be happier for that brief moment… But I don’t always want to be … Continue reading
Posted in David Scanlon (Translations), Fernando Pessoa, Poetry, Translation
Tagged Feeling, Happiness, Life, Resilience, Thinking
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THE KEEPER OF FLOCKS – XXVI
If I do interrogate when I am astonishedNo new fresh flowers are born in the meadowsNor does it change anything in the sun so that it becomes more beautiful…(Even if fresh flowers were born in the meadowAnd the sun changed … Continue reading
Posted in David Scanlon (Translations), Fernando Pessoa, Poetry, Translation
Tagged Beauty, Life, Nature, Seeing
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THE KEEPER OF FLOCKS – XXIII
My blue eyes are like the sky Which is calm like water in the sunlight. It is so, blue and calm, Because we don’t interrogate not even in astonishment…
Posted in David Scanlon (Translations), Fernando Pessoa, Poetry, Translation
Tagged Listening, Nature, Reality, Seeing, Truth
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THE KEEPER OF FLOCKS – XLIV
I suddenly wake up at night, And my watch occupies the whole night. I no longer feel Nature outside. My room is one dark thing with walls dimly white. Outside there is a stillness as if nothing exists. Only the … Continue reading
Posted in David Scanlon (Translations), Fernando Pessoa, Poetry, Translation
Tagged Joy, Life, Listening, Seeing, Thinking, Truth
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THE KEEPER OF FLOCKS – XLVII
On a breathtakingly clear day, A day when I had a desire to work hard Yet hearing her was like not working on anything, I saw a glimpse, like a road through the trees, Of what may be her Biggest … Continue reading
Posted in David Scanlon (Translations), Fernando Pessoa, Poetry, Translation
Tagged Listening, Nature, Poetry, Poets, Resilience, Seeing, Truth
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