Κωνσταντίνος Π. Καβάφης: «Η Πόλις» * ( απαγγελία : Καρυοφυλλιά Καραμπέτη ) * Cavafy “ the City '

a visualisation of Constantine P. Cavafy ( Kavafis Konstantinos ) poem “ the City “ ( Polis = Η Πόλις )

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Constantine P. Cavafy ( Kavafis Konstantinos ) poem “ the City "

You said: “I’ll go to another country, go to another shore,
find another city better than this one.
Whatever I try to do is fated to turn out wrong
and my heart lies buried as though it were something dead.
How long can I let my mind moulder in this place?
Wherever I turn, wherever I happen to look,
I see the black ruins of my life, here,
where I’ve spent so many years, wasted them, destroyed them totally.”

You won’t find a new country, won’t find another shore.
This city will always pursue you. You will walk
the same streets, grow old in the same neighborhoods,
will turn gray in these same houses.
You will always end up in this city. Don’t hope for things elsewhere:
there is no ship for you, there is no road.
As you’ve wasted your life here, in this small corner,
you’ve destroyed it everywhere else in the world.


Translated by Edmund Keeley/Philip Sherrard