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Constantine P Cavafy - The First Step
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The young poet Evmenis
complained one day to Theocritus:
"I`ve been writing for two years now
and I`ve composed only one idyll.
It`s my single completed work.
I see, sadly, that the ladder
of Poetry is tall, extremely tall;
and from this first step I`m standing on now
I`ll never climb any higher."
Theocritus retorted: "Words like that
are improper, blasphemous.
Just to be on the first step
should make you happy and proud.
To have reached this point is no small achievement:
what you`ve done already is a wonderful thing.
Even this first step
is a long way above the ordinary world.
To stand on this step
you must be in your own right
a member of the city of ideas.
And it`s a hard, unusual thing
to be enrolled as a citizen of that city.
Its councils are full of Legislators
no charlatan can fool.
To have reached this point is no small achievement:
what you`ve done already is a wonderful thing."
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