<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358671" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Young Poet In His 24th Year</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Brain, work now as well as you can.<br>A one-sided passion is destroying him.<br>He's in a maddening situation.<br>Every day he kisses the face he worships,<br>his hands are on those exquisite limbs.<br>He's never loved before with this degree of passion.<br>But the beautiful fulfillment of love<br>is lacking, that fulfillment is lacking<br>which both of them must want with the same intensity.<br> <br>(They aren't equally given to the abnormal form of sensual pleasure; <br>only he is completely possessed by it.) <br> <br>And so he's wearing himself out, all on edge.<br>Then—to make things worse—he's out of work.<br>He manages somehow to borrow<br>a little here and there (sometimes<br>almost begging for it) and he just gets by.<br>He kisses those adored lips, excites himself<br>on that exquisite body—though he now feels<br>it only acquiesces. And then<br>he drinks and smokes, drinks and smokes; <br>and he drags himself to the cafés all day long,<br>drags the weariness consuming his beauty.<br>Brain, work now as well as you can.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Constantine+P.+Cavafy">Constantine P. Cavafy</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358671" data-title="A Young Poet In His 24th Year de Constantine P. Cavafy" data-description="Brain, work now as well as you can. A one-sided passion is destroying him. He's in a maddening situation. Every day he kisses the face he worships, his hands are on those exquisite limbs. He's never loved before with this degree of passion. But th..."></div> </div> </div>

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