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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358808" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The First Step</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The young poet Evmenis<br>complained one day to Theocritus:<br>&quot;I've been writing for two years now<br>and I've composed only one idyll.<br>It's my single completed work.<br>I see, sadly, that the ladder<br>of Poetry is tall, extremely tall;<br>and from this first step I'm standing on now<br>I'll never climb any higher.&quot;<br>Theocritus retorted: &quot;Words like that<br>are improper, blasphemous.<br>Just to be on the first step<br>should make you happy and proud.<br>To have reached this point is no small achievement:<br>what you've done already is a wonderful thing.<br>Even this first step<br>is a long way above the ordinary world.<br>To stand on this step<br>you must be in your own right<br>a member of the city of ideas.<br>And it's a hard, unusual thing<br>to be enrolled as a citizen of that city.<br>Its councils are full of Legislators<br>no charlatan can fool.<br>To have reached this point is no small achievement:<br>what you've done already is a wonderful thing.&quot;</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>
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complained one day to Theocritus:
&quot;I've been writing for two years now
and I've composed only one idyll.
It's my single completed work.
I see, sadly, that the ladder
of Poetry is tall, extremely tall;
and from this firs..."></div>
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