Introduced by Georges P. Savidis, this small volume contains twenty-seven intimate reflections by the neo-Alexandrian poet Constantin Cavafy on his art and love orientation.

Translated for the first time in their entirety, these Notes on Poetics and Morality are presented alongside the original Greek.

Ἐργάζομαι σὰν τοὺς ἀρχαίους. Ἔγραφαν ἱστο­­ρία, ἔκαμναν φιλοσοφία, δράματα μυθολογικῆς τρα­­­γι­κότητος⁠ ⁠— ἐρωτοπαθεῖς⁠ ⁠—τό­σοι τους⁠ ⁠— ὅμοια σὰν ἐ­μένα. I work like the ancients. They wrote history, they practiced philosophy, they dramatized the tragic of mythology⁠ ⁠— and almost all, like me, were love-stricken.