C.P. Cavafy Quotes

Try to keep them, poet, those erotic visions of yours, however few of them there are that can be stilled. Put them, half-hidden, in your lines.

C.P. Cavafy

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• Try to keep them, poet, those erotic visions of yours, however few of them there are that can be stilled. Put them, half-hidden, in your lines.

  

  C.P. Cavafy
  • Trying
  • Vision
  • Erotic