<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358794" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>September, 1903</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">At least let me now deceive myself with illusions<br>so as not to feel my empty life.<br>And yet I came so close so many times.<br>And yet how paralyzed I was, how cowardly;<br>why did I keep my lips sealed<br>while my empty life wept inside me,<br>my desires wore robes of mourning?<br>To have been so close so many times<br>to those sensual eyes, those lips,<br>to that body I dreamed of, loved-<br>so close so many times.</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=358794" data-title="September, 1903 de Constantine P. Cavafy" data-description="At least let me now deceive myself with illusions so as not to feel my empty life. And yet I came so close so many times. And yet how paralyzed I was, how cowardly; why did I keep my lips sealed while my empty life wept inside me, my desires wore ..."></div> </div> </div>

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