"Return often and take me, beloved sensation, return……" — Constantine Peter Cavafy
"Return often and take me, beloved sensation, return and take me - When memory of the body awakens, and old desire again runs through the blood; when the lips and skin remember, and the hands feel as if they touch again."
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Constantine Peter Cavafy
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13 Quotes by Constantine Peter Cavafy
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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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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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Body, remember not only how much you were loved Not only the beds you lay on, But also those desires…
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