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On Hearing of Love

Constantine P. Cavafy 1863 (Alexandria) – 1933 (Alexandria)

On hearing about great love, respond, be moved
like an aesthete. Only, fortunate as you've been,
remember how much your imagination created for you.
This first, and then the rest
that you experienced and enjoyed in your life:
the less great, the more real and tangible.
Of loves like these you were not deprived.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 314
Words 56
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7
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Constantine P. Cavafy

Constantine P. Cavafy was a Greek poet who lived in Alexandria and worked as a journalist and civil servant. He published 154 poems; dozens more remained incomplete or in sketch form. His most important poetry was written after his fortieth birthday. more…

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