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Poetry · Reflection

I'VE BROUGHT TO ART -CONSTANTINE CAVAFY

4 February 2011

I sit in a mood of reverie.

I’ve brought to Art desires and sensations:

things half-glimpsed,

faces or lines, certain indistinct memories

of unfulfilled love affairs.

Let me submit to Art:

Art knows how to shape forms of Beauty,

almost imperceptibly completing life,

blending impressions, blending day with day.

Constantine P. Cavafy

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