Constantine P. Cavafy Quote

He Knows He's Aged A Lot: he sees it, feels it.
Yet it seems he was young just yesterday.
So brief an interval, so very brief. And he thinks of Prudence, how it fooled him,
how he always believed — what madness —
That Cheat Who Said: Tomorrow. You have plenty of time.

An Old Man - Collected Poems (1992)