It is strange, is it not, how a person can adore one’s soul so much that they adore one’s body also?
It is strange, is it not, how a person can adore one’s soul so much that they adore one’s body also?
“Like beautiful bodies of the dead who had not grown old
and they shut them, with tears, in a brilliant mausoleum,
with roses at the head and jasmine at the feet –
this is what desires resemble that have passed
without fulfillment; without any of them having achieved
a night of sensual delight, or a morning of brightness.”
Constantine P. Cavafy