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Top 25 C.P. Cavafy Quotes (2024 Update)

C.P. Cavafy Quote: “When you set sail for Ithaca, wish for the road to be long, full of adventures, full of knowledge.”

1. “When you set sail for Ithaca, wish for the road to be long, full of adventures, full of knowledge.”

— C.P. Cavafy

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C.P. Cavafy Quote: “Have Ithaka always in your mind. Your arrival there is what you are destined for. But don’t in the least hurry the journey.”

2. “Have Ithaka always in your mind. Your arrival there is what you are destined for. But don’t in the least hurry the journey.”

— C.P. Cavafy

C.P. Cavafy Quote: “And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean.”

3. “And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean.”

— C.P. Cavafy

C.P. Cavafy Quote: “When you set out for Ithaca, ask that your way be long.”

4. “When you set out for Ithaca, ask that your way be long.”

— C.P. Cavafy

C.P. Cavafy Quote: “And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it...”

5. “And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it...”

— C.P. Cavafy

C.P. Cavafy Quote: “One candle is enough. Its gentle light will be more suitable, will be more gracious when the Shades arrive, the Shades of Love.”

6. “One candle is enough. Its gentle light will be more suitable, will be more gracious when the Shades arrive, the Shades of Love.”

— C.P. Cavafy

C.P. Cavafy Quote: “Arriving there is what you are destined for.”

7. “Arriving there is what you are destined for.”

— C.P. Cavafy

C.P. Cavafy Quote: “That we’ve broken their statues, that we’ve driven them out of their temples, doesn’t mean at all that the gods are dead. O land of Ionia, they’re still in love with you, their souls still keep your memory.”

8. “That we’ve broken their statues, that we’ve driven them out of their temples, doesn’t mean at all that the gods are dead. O land of Ionia, they’re still in love with you, their souls still keep your memory.”

— C.P. Cavafy

C.P. Cavafy Quote: “Guard, O my soul, against pomp and glory. And if you cannot curb your ambitions, at least pursue them hesitantly, cautiously. And the higher you go, the more searching and careful you need to be.”

9. “Guard, O my soul, against pomp and glory. And if you cannot curb your ambitions, at least pursue them hesitantly, cautiously. And the higher you go, the more searching and careful you need to be.”

— C.P. Cavafy

C.P. Cavafy Quote: “Body, remember not only how much you were loved, not only the beds you lay on, but also those desires glowing openly in eyes that looked at you, trembling for you in voices.”

10. “Body, remember not only how much you were loved, not only the beds you lay on, but also those desires glowing openly in eyes that looked at you, trembling for you in voices.”

— C.P. Cavafy

C.P. Cavafy Quote: “On hearing about powerful love, respond, be moved like an aesthete. Only, fortunate as you’ve been, remember how much your imagination created for you.”

11. “On hearing about powerful love, respond, be moved like an aesthete. Only, fortunate as you’ve been, remember how much your imagination created for you.”

— C.P. Cavafy

C.P. Cavafy Quote: “What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.”

12. “What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.”

— C.P. Cavafy

C.P. Cavafy Quote: “The days of the future stand in front of us Like a line of candles all alight Golden and warm and lively little candles.”

13. “The days of the future stand in front of us Like a line of candles all alight Golden and warm and lively little candles.”

— C.P. Cavafy

C.P. Cavafy Quote: “Return often and take me, beloved sensation, return and take me – When memory of the body awakens, and old desire again runs through the blood; when the lips and skin remember, and the hands feel as if they touch again.”

14. “Return often and take me, beloved sensation, return and take me – When memory of the body awakens, and old desire again runs through the blood; when the lips and skin remember, and the hands feel as if they touch again.”

— C.P. Cavafy

C.P. Cavafy Quote: “Try to keep them, poet, those erotic visions of yours, however few of them there are that can be stilled. Put them, half-hidden, in your lines.”

15. “Try to keep them, poet, those erotic visions of yours, however few of them there are that can be stilled. Put them, half-hidden, in your lines.”

— C.P. Cavafy

C.P. Cavafy Quote: “Roses by the head, jasmine at the feet so appear the longings that have passed without being satisfied, not one of them granted a night of sensual pleasure, or one of its radiant mornings.”

16. “Roses by the head, jasmine at the feet so appear the longings that have passed without being satisfied, not one of them granted a night of sensual pleasure, or one of its radiant mornings.”

— C.P. Cavafy

C.P. Cavafy Quote: “A month passes by and brings another month. Easy to guess what lies ahead: all of yesterday’s boredom. And tomorrow ends up no longer like tomorrow.”

17. “A month passes by and brings another month. Easy to guess what lies ahead: all of yesterday’s boredom. And tomorrow ends up no longer like tomorrow.”

— C.P. Cavafy

C.P. Cavafy Quote: “Of what’s to come the wise perceive things about to happen. Sometimes during moments of intense study their hearing’s troubled: the hidden sound of things approaching reaches them, and they listen reverently, while in the street outside the people hear nothing whatsoever.”

18. “Of what’s to come the wise perceive things about to happen. Sometimes during moments of intense study their hearing’s troubled: the hidden sound of things approaching reaches them, and they listen reverently, while in the street outside the people hear nothing whatsoever.”

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C.P. Cavafy Quote: “Nero wasn’t worried at all when he heard the utterance of the Delphic Oracle: “Beware the age of seventy-three.” Plenty of time to enjoy himself still. He’s thirty. The deadline the god has given him is quite enough to cope with future dangers.”

19. “Nero wasn’t worried at all when he heard the utterance of the Delphic Oracle: “Beware the age of seventy-three.” Plenty of time to enjoy himself still. He’s thirty. The deadline the god has given him is quite enough to cope with future dangers.”

— C.P. Cavafy

C.P. Cavafy Quote: “From my most unnoticed actions, my most veiled writing from these alone will I be understood.”

20. “From my most unnoticed actions, my most veiled writing from these alone will I be understood.”

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C.P. Cavafy Quote: “If you are one of the truly elect, be careful how you attain your eminence.”

21. “If you are one of the truly elect, be careful how you attain your eminence.”

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C.P. Cavafy Quote: “From all I did and all I said let no one try to find out who I was.”

22. “From all I did and all I said let no one try to find out who I was.”

— C.P. Cavafy

C.P. Cavafy Quote: “The holy Cross goes forward; it brings joy and consolation to every quarter where Christians live; and these God-fearing people, elated, stand in their doorways and greet it reverently, the strength, the salvation of the universe, the Cross.”

23. “The holy Cross goes forward; it brings joy and consolation to every quarter where Christians live; and these God-fearing people, elated, stand in their doorways and greet it reverently, the strength, the salvation of the universe, the Cross.”

— C.P. Cavafy

C.P. Cavafy Quote: “My life has been awaiting you. Your footfall was my own heart’s beat.”

24. “My life has been awaiting you. Your footfall was my own heart’s beat.”

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C.P. Cavafy Quote: “What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today.”

25. “What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today.”

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C.P. Cavafy Quote: “The frivolous can call me frivolous. I’ve always been most punctilious about important things. And I insist that no one knows better than I do the Holy Fathers, or the Scriptures, or the Canons of the Councils.”

26. “The frivolous can call me frivolous. I’ve always been most punctilious about important things. And I insist that no one knows better than I do the Holy Fathers, or the Scriptures, or the Canons of the Councils.”

— C.P. Cavafy

C.P. Cavafy Quote: “I’m practically broke and homeless. This fatal city, Antioch, has devoured all my money: this fatal city with its extravagant life.”

27. “I’m practically broke and homeless. This fatal city, Antioch, has devoured all my money: this fatal city with its extravagant life.”

— C.P. Cavafy

C.P. Cavafy Quote: “And from this marvellous pan-Hellenic expedition, triumphant, brilliant in every way, celebrated on all sides, glorified incomparable, we emerged: the great new Hellenic world.”

28. “And from this marvellous pan-Hellenic expedition, triumphant, brilliant in every way, celebrated on all sides, glorified incomparable, we emerged: the great new Hellenic world.”

— C.P. Cavafy

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