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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)
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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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SO YOU WANT TO BE A WRITER?
if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it. if you have to sit … Continue reading
THE POET
Until the poet is required to be At one in Apollo’s sacred sacrifice He stays within modern worries Remaining quietly preoccupied; His Holy Lyre remains silent; A soul tasting of a dying song, Within our insignificant world Perhaps, he too … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Pushkin, David Scanlon (Translations), Poetry, Translation
Tagged Alive, Creativity, Life, Muse, Poetry, Resilience, Writing
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IMMORTAL SPIRIT
Immortal spirit, voice of my fertility, Light my flames with virile enthusiasm, Transform into her words the cynicism That punish peoples everyday vitality!
Posted in David Scanlon (Translations), João da Cruz e Sousa, Poetry, Translation
Tagged Creativity, Muse, Passion, Poetry, Poets, Truth, Writing
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THE POETRY – LA POESÍA
And it was at that age ….. came the poem looking for me. I don’t know, don’t really know where it was, winter or stream. No I don’t know how or when, no, it wasn’t voices, was not words, not … Continue reading
Posted in David Scanlon (Translations), Pablo Neruda, Poetry, Translation
Tagged Happiness, Joy, Love, Poetry, Writing
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