<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358677" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An Old Man</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">At the noisy end of the cafe, head bent<br>over the table, an old man sits alone,<br>a newspaper in front of him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And in the miserable banality of old age<br>he thinks how little he enjoyed the years<br>when he had strength, eloquence, and looks.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He knows he's aged a lot: he sees it, feels it.<br>Yet it seems he was young just yesterday.<br>So brief an interval, so brief.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he thinks of Prudence, how it fooled him,<br>how he always believed - what madness -<br>that cheat who said: &quot;Tomorrow. You have plenty of time.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He remembers impulses bridled, the joy<br>he sacrificed. Every chance he lost<br>now mocks his senseless caution.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But so much thinking, so much remembering<br>makes the old man dizzy. He falls asleep,<br>his head resting on the cafe table.</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=358677" data-title="An Old Man de Constantine P. Cavafy" data-description="At the noisy end of the cafe, head bent over the table, an old man sits alone, a newspaper in front of him. And in the miserable banality of old age he thinks how little he enjoyed the years when he had strength, eloquence, and looks. He knows h..."></div> </div> </div>

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