
Before Time Altered Them http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=123&cat=1
Collected Poems (1992)
Source: When He Was Wicked
Before Time Altered Them http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=123&cat=1
Collected Poems (1992)
Source: Women (1978)
Context: I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.
“Like a lot of things that everybody knows, it wasn’t true.”
Source: Forever Peace (1997), pp. 44-45
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 1.
“So he wasn’t dead. That was probably supposed to be a good thing.”
Source: The Way of Shadows (2008), Chapter 22 (p. 171)
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
De visione Dei (On The Vision of God) (1453)