How can Artaxerxes give you these,
where will you find these in a satrapy;
and what life can you live without these.
(The Satrapy)
More Quotes from Constantine P. Cavafy:
But I am young and in excellent health.Constantine P. Cavafy
Now that you've wasted your life here, in this small corner,
you've destroyed it everywhere in the world.
Constantine P. Cavafy
And with their sound for a moment return
other sounds from the first poetry of our life --
like distant music that dies off in the night.
Constantine P. Cavafy
The years of my youth, my sensual life --
how clearly I see their meaning now.
Constantine P. Cavafy
How short a time, how short a time.
Constantine P. Cavafy
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