<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358846" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Understanding</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The years of my youth, my sensual life --<br>how clearly I see their meaning now.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What needless repentances, how futile....</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I did not understand the meaning then.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the dissolute life of my youth<br>the desires of my poetry were being formed,<br>the scope of my art was being plotted.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is why my repentances were never stable.<br>And my resolutions to control myself, to change<br>lasted for two weeks at the very most.</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=358846" data-title="Understanding de Constantine P. Cavafy" data-description="The years of my youth, my sensual life -- how clearly I see their meaning now. What needless repentances, how futile.... But I did not understand the meaning then. In the dissolute life of my youth the desires of my poetry were being formed, th..."></div> </div> </div>

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