Occupation: Poet Birth: April 29, 1863 Death: April 29, 1933
Body, remember not only how much you were loved, not only the beds you lay on, but also those desires glowing openly in eyes that looked at you, trem….
On hearing about powerful love, respond, be moved like an aesthete. Only, fortunate as you've been, remember how much your imagination created for yo….
What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution..
From my most unnoticed actions, my most veiled writing - from these alone will I be understood..
Return often and take me, beloved sensation, return and take me - When memory of the body awakens, and old desire again runs through the blood; when ….
Have Ithaka always in your mind. Your arrival there is what you are destined for. But don't in the least hurry the journey..
What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today..
And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it..
From all I did and all I said let no one try to find out who I was..
To certain people there comes a day when they must say the great Yes or the great No..
My life has been awaiting you. Your footfall was my own heart's beat..
The days of the future stand in front of us Like a line of candles all alight Golden and warm and lively little candles..
Honor to those who in the life they lead define and guard a Thermopylae. Never betraying what is right, consistent and just in all they do but sh….
I'm practically broke and homeless. This fatal city, Antioch, has devoured all my money: this fatal city with its extravagant life..
When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full of knowledge..
A month passes by and brings another month. Easy to guess what lies ahead: all of yesterday's boredom. And tomorrow ends up no longer like tomorrow..
One candle is enough. Its gentle light will be more suitable, will be more gracious when the Shades arrive, the Shades of Love..
Speak not of guilt, speak not of responsibility. When the Regiment of the Senses parades by, with music, and with banners; when the senses shiver and….
Nero wasn't worried at all when he heard the utterance of the Delphic Oracle: "Beware the age of seventy-three." Plenty of time to enjoy himself stil….
Arriving there is what you are destined for.
The holy Cross goes forward; it brings joy and consolation to every quarter where Christians live; and these God-fearing people, elated, stand in the….