Body, remember not only how much you were loved, not only the beds you lay on, but also those desires glowing openly in eyes that looked at you, trembling for you in voices.
C.P. CavafyOne candle is enough. Its gentle light will be more suitable, will be more gracious when the Shades arrive, the Shades of Love.
C.P. CavafyWhen you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full of knowledge.
C.P. CavafyTry to keep them, poet, those erotic visions of yours, however few of them there are that can be stilled. Put them, half-hidden, in your lines.
C.P. Cavafy