Said an aesthete: "What distillation from magic herbs <br />can I find—what distillation, following the recipe <br />of ancient Greco-Syrian magicians— <br />that will bring back to me for one day (if its power <br />doesn't last longer) or even for a few hours, <br />my twenty-third year, <br />bring back to me my friend of twenty-two, <br />his beauty, his love. <br /> <br />What distillation, following the recipe <br />of ancient Greco-Syrian magicians, can be found <br />to bring back also—as part of this return of things past— <br />even the little room we shared."<br /><br />Constantine P. Cavafy<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/following-the-recipe-of-ancient-syrio-greek-magicians/
