My life’s joy and incense: recollection of those hours when I found and captured sensual pleasure as I wanted it. My life’s joy and incense: that I refused all indulgence in routine love affairs. 

Reprinted from C.P. CAVAFY: Collected Poems Revised Edition, translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, edited by George Savidis. Translation copyright © 1975, 1992 by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Princeton University Press. For reuse of these translations, please contact Princeton University Press. 
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Delicia y perfume de mi vida, la memoria de las horas en que hallé y retuve el placer como anhelaba. Delicia y perfume de mi vida, para mí, que maldije cada placer de amores rutinarios.
Cavafis, C. (2023). Ciento cincuenta y cuatro poemas (P. Bádenas de la Peña, traducción e introducción). UMA Editorial.
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