An extraAudenary year

Simon · Post by **Simon** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 10:52 pm

The Latin -spir- can also lead to spirit- soul...

"I have a soul, therefore I am"

Diane, Meringue is also a latin dance. "I dance, therefore I am". I thought you might be more Flamenco...?

Diane · Post by **Diane** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 3:31 am

Diane, Meringue is also a latin dance. "I dance, therefore I am". I thought you might be more Flamenco...?

Simon, you must have seen the crazy gypsy in my spiritus

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Diane

Sophia · Post by **Sophia** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 12:21 am

Additionally, I would like to mention that Auden claimed Cavafy as a major influence on his work despite having no Modern Greek and relying on translations. Auden thought of Cavafy as a poet who was indelibly himself, who couldn't write or exist otherwise. This is from Auden's introduction to a selection of Cavafy's poems in English:"What then is it in Cavafy's poems that survives translation and excites? Something I can only call,most inadequately,a tone of voice, a personal speech.I have read translations of Cavafy made by many different hands, but every one of them was immediately recognisable as a poem by Cavafy;nobody else could possibly have written it. Reading any poem of his, I feel:This reveals a person with a unique perspective on the world."

Sophia

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 12:59 am

That's beautiful, Sophia. What a tribute to anyone

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~ Lizzy