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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Constantine P. Cavafy
Born: April 29, 1863
Died: April 29, 1933 (aged 70)
Bio: Constantine P. Cavafy was a Greek poet who lived in Alexandria and worked as a journalist and civil servant. He wrote 154 poems; dozens more remained incomplete or in sketch form.
Known for:
- The complete poems of Cavafy
- Poems: The Canon
- The unfinished poems
- Poems by C.P. Cavafy
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