[Poetry Chaikhana] Constantine P. Cavafy - The Great Yes

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Poetry Chaikhana <ivan[Poetry Chaikhana] Constantine P. Cavafy - The Great YesalanadamsjacobsDate: Friday, 23 January, 2009, 5:36 PM

 

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The Great Yes

By Constantine P. Cavafy(1863 - 1933)

English version by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard

For some people the day comeswhen they have to declare the great Yesor the great No. It’s clear at once who has the Yesready within him; and saying it,he goes from honor to honor, strong in his conviction.He who refuses does not repent. Asked again,he’d still say no. Yet that no--the right no--drags him down all his life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

-- from Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry, by Jane Hirshfield

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Hi Alan -A reminder from the early 20th century Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy to declare the great Yes!Discover something magical this weekend. Discover something that causes a great Yes to well up in you...IvanPS - We'll continue the Lover & Beloved series next week.PPS - Check your spam filters.If you don't receive the next Lover & Beloved email, make sure that neither your personal email application nor your mail network have mistakenly labeled the email as spam. All this talk of love has a way of raising warning flags for spam filters.PPPS - The origin of "spam."Do you know how junk email got named after that hideous spiced ham in a can? Picture early computer geeks obsessed with Monty Python. Remember the spam skit? "Can I have the spam, eggs, bacon, spam, spam, beans, spam, and spam -- but without the spam?"

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