#ChessPoetry♟️ “How Triumphantly He Gets There In Time To The Formidable Last Line; How Readily He Approaches His Own Death!” #Cavafy #ThePawn Beautifully Translated from Greek by #RaeDalven C.P. Cavafy Kayus Michael Stevens Magnus Carlsen Fabiano Caruana Hikaru Nakamura Snir El

“The Great Yes Or The Great No” #CheFeceIlGranRifiuto #Cavafy Beautifully Translated from Greek by #RaeDalven C.P. Cavafy Michael Stevens Cavafy Bot Dea Pelagia ELLI F. AΚ Misko AX Luke Bergis wcshaw Luther Blissett @eva_moreda

“Those Cold Words ‘Mine’ or ‘Yours’ Were Never Spoken” #Cavafy From Greek By #RaeDalven #AnnaDalassene is featured by #JudyChicago at #TheDinnerParty Installation art @BrooklynMuseum C.P. Cavafy Michael Stevens Dea Pelagia ELLI F. Luke Bergis wcshaw Luther Blissett @eva_moreda

#Cavafy “I Went Into The Hidden Rooms That They Are Even Ashamed To Name. But Not Shameful To Me” From Greek by #RaeDalven C.P. Cavafy Therese Sellers @qerese.bsky.social Dea D. N. Keane Michael Stevens A Melville Pelagia Marcia S Newman Gigi P @eva_moreda Abdul Qader Welmoed de Lang Max Staudt

“The Pen You Moisten Resembles A Hand Moving Around The Clock Of The Soul——Honest Inkwell, Sacred To The Poet, From Whose Ink A World Emerges” #Cavafy From Greek by #RaeDalven C.P. Cavafy @TCTheatrePeeps PAW (Peter) Pelagia amal.merzouk ⴰⵎⴰⵍ ⵎⴻⵔⵣoⵓⴽ ELLI F. Michael Stevens @SeltzerBooks

“You Will Find No New Lands, You Will Find No Other Seas. The City Will Follow You. You Will Roam The Same Streets. And You Will Age In The Same Neighborhoods” #Cavafy #TheCity FromGreekBy #RaeDalven C.P. Cavafy Scott Hamilton RTM elegant vlach Michael Stevens ce fut Tigrevert Alejandro Dea

#Cavafy “I Have Prayed, O Memory, To Find In You The Best Guide, That I Might Make The Face Of The Young Man That In Loved As It Once Used To Be” FromGreekBy #RaeDalven C.P. Cavafy Zubair Faisal Abbasi Dea Alejandro David Hines Daniel Mendelsohn ce fut Tigrevert Nusrat Zahra Michael Stevens

#Cavafy The Walls Of His House Are Of Magic Emerald—And Voices Within Them Whisper, “Friend, Be Quiet; Meditate And Sing. Be Of Good Heart, Mystic Apostle!” FromGreekBy #RaeDalven C.P. Cavafy Daniel Mendelsohn Zubair Faisal Abbasi David Hines Alejandro ce fut Tigrevert Nusrat Zahra Michael Stevens

#Cavafy “And So The Alexandrians Rushed To The Ceremony, And They Grew Enthusiastic, And They Cheered In Greek And In Egyptian And Some In Hebrew” FromGreekBy #RaeDalven C.P. Cavafy #Cleopatra #KingOfKings Zubair Faisal Abbasi Alejandro Michael Stevens Asiya Kamran Javadizadeh Alicia E. Stallings

RIP #JamesEarlJones The Legendary Voice of Hollywood and a Beautiful Actor. Listen to him Describes Fireworks Over The Phone to #DavidLetterman #FieldOfDreams #DarthVader

“Such indeed was the temper of Julian, who seldom recollected the fundamental maxim of #Aristotle, that true virtue is placed at an equal distance between the opposite vices” #EdwardGibbon aka The Road paved of gold is down the middle.

#JamesMichener #Hawaii “Mun Ki also had difficulty understanding why Americans ate so much, and he would consistently omit dishes to which the robust appetites of the white men had become accustomed. A typical Whipple dinner, served at high noon in the heat of the day, consisted

“My first day of peace will be my last one in power.” From The General in His Labyrinth by #GabrielGarcíaMárquez #SimónBolívar

#JamesMichener #Sayonara “For about two hours that morning as I lay awake—from three to five—I decided the whole affair was too damned silly, but toward dawn I began to see Hana-ogi dancing along the wall of my room and her classical postures, the stamping of her feet and the

#Cavafy #InTheSameSpace “I have created you in joy and in sorrows: Out of so many circumstances, out of so many things” Beautifully translated from Greek by #RaeDalven C.P. Cavafy Cavafy Bot Mike Hill

“The Pleiades are seven stars, But only six are seen. The seventh is immured by bars, A sad imprisoned queen. “The Sisters Six glow on your breast, The fairest ever seen. The seventh shines beyond the rest, ’Tis you, their heavenly queen.” From #Poland by #JamesMichener