“It will be a great relief when a window opens.”
The Windows http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=137&cat=1 <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992) <br class="br">Context: It will be a great relief when a window opens.<br>But the windows are not there to be found —<br>or at least I cannot find them. And perhaps<br>it is better that I don’t find them.<br>Perhaps the light will prove another tyranny.<br>Who knows what new things it will expose?
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