“Just to be on the first step
should make you happy and proud.
To have come this far is no small achievement:
what you have done is a glorious thing.”

— Constantine P. Cavafy

The First Step http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=145&cat=1 Collected Poems (1992) Context: Just to be on the first step should make you happy and proud. To have come this far is no small achievement: what you have done is a glorious thing. Even this first step is a long way above the ordinary world. To stand on this step you must be in your own right a member of the city of ideas. And it is a hard, unusual thing to be enrolled as a citizen of that city. Its councils are full of Legislators no charlatan can fool.

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