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Sensual Pleasures

by Constantine P. Cavafy

Constantine P Cavafy

My life's joy and incense: recollection of those hours
when I found and captured pleasure as I wanted it.
My life's joy and incense: that I refused
all indulgence in routine love affairs.




Quotes of the Day

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
• Greek proverb


Poems of the Day
  • Walt Whitman
    One’s-Self I Sing.
    by Walt Whitman
    ONE’S-SELF I sing—a simple, separate Person; Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-masse. Of Physiology from top to toe I sing;