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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

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it

• Maya Angelou



Poems of the Day
  • Robert Frost
    The Bonfire
    by Robert Frost
    “OH, let’s go up the hill and scare ourselves, As reckless as the best of them to-night, By setting fire to all the brush we piled With pitchy hands to wait for rain or snow.