Cavafy

[poliphilo]

Cavafy lived for poetry but never published a single line. It wasn't that he tried and failed (like Dickinson or Hopkins) but that he chose not to. I guess he was simply too fastidious for the literary life.

On his 70th birthday he took a piece of paper and drew a full stop with a circle round it. Within twelve hours he was dead and buried.

I like his style.

Comments

[catvalente.livejournal.com]

Dickinson really didn't try to get her work published. She didn't care much, just wrote some letters to an editor.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. I like her style too! :)