<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358792" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sculptor of Tyana</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As you'll have heard, I'm no beginner.<br>I've handled a lot of stone in my time,<br>and in my own country, Tyana, I'm really quite famous.<br>Actually, a number of senators here<br>have also commissioned works of mine.<br>Let me show you<br>a few of them. Notice this Rhea:<br>reverential, all fortitude, most primitive.<br>Notice Pompey. And Marius here,<br>and Paulus Aemilius, and Scipio Africanus.<br>The likeness as close as I could make it.<br>And Patroklos (I still have to touch him up a bit).<br>Near those pieces of yellowish marble there<br>stands Kaisarion.<br>And for some time now I've been busy<br>working on a Poseidon. I'm studying<br>his horses in particular: how to shape them exactly.<br>They have to be made so light<br>that it's clear their bodies, their legs,<br>aren't touching the earth but galloping over water.<br>But here's my favourite work,<br>created with the most care and feeling.<br>This one -it was a hot summer day<br>and my mind rose to ideal things-<br>this one came to me in a vision, this young Hermes.</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=358792" data-title="Sculptor of Tyana de Constantine P. Cavafy" data-description="As you'll have heard, I'm no beginner. I've handled a lot of stone in my time, and in my own country, Tyana, I'm really quite famous. Actually, a number of senators here have also commissioned works of mine. Let me show you a few of them. Notice t..."></div> </div> </div>

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