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C P Cavafy - As much as you can
Identifier
012554
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
David Hockney, Two boys aged 23 or 24.
A description of the experience
And if you can't shape your life the way you want,
at least try as much as you can
not to degrade it
by too much contact with the world,
by too much activity and talk.
Try not to degrade it by dragging it along,
taking it around and exposing it so often
to the daily silliness
of social events and parties,
until it comes to seem a boring hanger-on.