Reference > Quotations > The Columbia World of Quotations
  PREVIOUS NEXT  
CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD · AUTHOR INDEX
The Columbia World of Quotations.  1996.
 
 
NUMBER:11110
QUOTATION:And now, what will become of us without the barbarians?
Those people were a kind of solution.
ATTRIBUTION:Constantine Cavafy (1863–1933), Greek poet. repr. In Collected Poems, ed. George Savidis, trans. by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard (1975). “Waiting for the Barbarians,” (1904).
 
 
The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press.

CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD · AUTHOR INDEX
  PREVIOUS NEXT  
 
Google
Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore.
Welcome · Press · Advertising · Linking · Terms of Use · © 2008 Bartleby.com