<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358668" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Byzantine Nobleman In Exile Composing Verses</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The frivolous can call me frivolous.<br>I've always been most punctilious about<br>important things. And I insist<br>that no one knows better than I do<br>the Holy Fathers, or the Scriptures, or the Canons of the Councils.<br>Whenever he was in doubt,<br>whenever he had any ecclesiastical problem,<br>Botaniatis consulted me, me first of all.<br>But exiled here (may she be cursed, that viper<br>Irini Doukaina) , and incredibly bored,<br>it is not altogether unfitting to amuse myself<br>writing six- and eight-line verses,<br>to amuse myself poeticizing myths<br>of Hermes and Apollo and Dionysos,<br>or the heroes of Thessaly and the Peloponnese; <br>and to compose the most strict iambics,<br>such as—if you'll allow me to say so—<br>the intellectuals of Constantinople don't know how to compose.<br>It must be just this strictness that provokes their disapproval.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Constantine+P.+Cavafy">Constantine P. Cavafy</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358668" data-title="A Byzantine Nobleman In Exile Composing Verses de Constantine P. Cavafy" data-description="The frivolous can call me frivolous. I've always been most punctilious about important things. And I insist that no one knows better than I do the Holy Fathers, or the Scriptures, or the Canons of the Councils. Whenever he was in doubt, whenever h..."></div> </div> </div>

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