From all I did and all I said let no one try to find out who I was. An obstacle was there that changed the pattern of my actions and the manner of my… - Konstantinos P. Cavafy

From my most unnoticed actions, my most veiled writing — from these alone will I be understood.

From all I did and all I said let no one try to find out who I was.

What he timidly imagined in his school days, is opened up, revealed to him. And he makes the rounds, stays out all night, gets swept up in things. And as is (for our art) only right, pleasure rejoices in his fresh, hot blood, an outlaw sensual abandon overcomes his body; and his youthful limbs give in to it.

Esto era lo que había en él de singular:
que en medio de toda su vida disoluta
y de su mucha experiencia en el amor,
a pesar de la habitual armonía
entre su actitud y su edad,
había algunos instantes -pero muy raros
ciertamente- en que daba la impresión
de una carne casi intacta.
La hermosura de sus veintinueve años,
tan probada en el placer,
había momentos en que paradojalmente recordaba
a un adolescente que -con cierta torpeza- al amor
por primera vez su cuerpo puro entrega.

The days of the future stand in fornt of us
Like a line of candles all alight
Golden and warm and lively little candles
The days that are past are left behind