This poet mourned "The poetic eyes, the pallid face / those lips I never found again" in "Days of 1903.
This poet mourned "The poetic eyes, the pallid face / those lips I never found again" in "Days of 1903." This poet wrote "Now that you've wasted your life here, in this small corner, you've destroyed it everywhere in the world" in a poem about the impossibility of escape from the title location, "The City." He divided his poetry into philosophical, historical, and sensual categories, and asked "Why has this anxiety come upon us all at once / why such confusion?" in a poem which ends by declaring "Those people, they were a kind of solution." This poet wrote "You won't encounter Laistrygonians and Cyclops / wild PoseidonÂ…unless you bring them along inside your soul," in a poem advising Odysseus to "pray that the journey be long." For 10 points, name this Greek poet from Alexandria, the author of "Waiting for the Barbarians" and "Ithaca."
This poet mourned "The poetic eyes, the pallid face / those lips I never found again" in "Days of 1903.
Constantine Petrou Cavafy [or Constantine Kavafis]