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Lugares nuevos no hallarás, ni hallarás otros mares.
La ciudad irá tras de ti. En tus calles pasearás,
las mismas, y en los mismos barrios envejecerás,
se te verá en estas casas acabarte.
Y siempre llegarás a esta ciudad. Para otra parte
-no esperes- no hay barco ya, ni senda para ti.
Lo mismo que tu vida la perdiste aquí,
en esta esquina, la perdiste en todos los lugares.
La ciudad, Cavafis.
Cy Twombly, notas a un libro de Cavafis
Duane Michals: As aventuras de Constantino Cavafis
Corto Maltese, Equatoria
When Corto Maltese met his friend, and real life, Greek poet, Konstantinos Cavafis.
Box 1: Alexandria, one day later:
You said: "I'll go to another country, go to another shore, find another city better than this one.
Box 2: Whatever I try to do is fated to turn out wrong and my heart -like something dead- lies buried.
Box 3: Wherever I turn, wherever I look, I see the black ruins of my life, here, where I've spent so many years, wasted them, destroyed them totally."
]Box 4: You won't find a new country, won't find another shore
Box 5: This city will always pursue you. You'll walk the same streets, grow old in the same neighbourhoods, turn grey in these same houses.
Box 6: You'll always end up in this city. Don't hope for things elsewhere: there's no ship for you, there's no road.
Box 7: Now that you've wasted your life here, in this small corner, you've destroyed it everywhere in the world.
C. P. Cavafis, "The City"
[Poem's translation by cavafis.compupress.gr]
O QUANTO POSSAS
Se não podes afeiçoar tua vida como queres,
deves ao menos tentar, o quanto
possas, isto: não a rebaixes
no excessivo comércio do mundo,
no excesso de palavras e de gestos.
Não a rebaixes levando-a para dar
passeios, exibindo-a o tempo todo
nas reuniões e comemorações
em que a tolice diária se compraz,
até fazeres dela uma estranha importuna.
CAVÁFIS, Constantinos. "O quanto possas". In: PAES, José Paulo (org e trad.). Poesia moderna da Grécia. Rio de Janeiro: Guanabara, 1986.
«… Regresa muchas veces y tómame de noche… cuando los labios y la piel recuerdan…»
Cavafis
.
Vuelve
Vuelve a menudo y tómame, amada sensación, vuelve y tómame cuando despierta del cuerpo la memoria, y un antiguo deseo atraviesa la sangre, cuando los labios y la piel recuerdan, y sienten las manos que acarician de nuevo.
Vuelve a menudo y tómame en la noche, cuando los labios y la piel recuerdan…
-Constantino Cavafis
