"Body, remember not only how much you were……" — Constantine Peter Cavafy
"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"
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Constantine Peter Cavafy
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13 Quotes by Constantine Peter Cavafy
Constantine Peter Cavafy has 13 quotes on this site.
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When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full of…
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What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.
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Return often and take me, beloved sensation, return and take me - When memory of the body awakens, and old…
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Arriving there is what you are destined for
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Give me artificial flowers - porcelain and metal glories - neither fading nor decaying, forms unaging. Flowers of the splendid…
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My life has been awaiting you. Your footfall was my own heart's beat.
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Have Ithaka always in your mind. Your arrival there is what you are destined for. But don't in the least…
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And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience,…
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Days to come stand in front of us like a row of lighted candles— golden, warm, and vivid candles. Days…
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to certain people there comes a day when they must say the great Yes or the great No...
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Don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now, work gone wrong, your plans all proving deceptive — don’t mourn them uselessly.…
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And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not…
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With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of…
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We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner…
— Richard Branson
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Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed…
— Charlotte Bronte
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To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile…
— Dilys Laing
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We are not retreating, we are advancing in another direction. We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand…
— George Orwell
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And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies.
— Marie Antoinette
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English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit. ... Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows,…
— Alan Coren
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To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole…
— Charles Dickens
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Strength and strength's will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of…
— Elbert Hubbard
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God turns clouds inside out to make fluffy beds for the dogs in Dog Heaven, and when they are tired…
— Cynthia Rylant
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I wish outer space guys would conquer the Earth and make people their pets, because I'd like to have one…
— Jack Handey
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As we sit here and idly chat, there are woman, female human beings, rolling around in strange beds with strange…
— Henry Winkler
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