{"id":1707,"date":"2005-02-24T14:46:05","date_gmt":"2005-02-24T03:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Liako.Biz\/ithaca\/"},"modified":"2021-08-09T20:56:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T04:56:50","slug":"ithaka","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/ithaka\/","title":{"rendered":"Ithaka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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BY <\/span>C. P. CAVAFY<\/a><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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TRANSLATED BY EDMUND KEELEY<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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As you set out for Ithaka<\/div>\n
hope your road is a long one,<\/div>\n
full of adventure, full of discovery.<\/div>\n
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,<\/div>\n
angry Poseidon\u2014don\u2019t be afraid of them:<\/div>\n
you\u2019ll never find things like that on your way<\/div>\n
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,<\/div>\n
as long as a rare excitement<\/div>\n
stirs your spirit and your body.<\/div>\n
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,<\/div>\n
wild Poseidon\u2014you won\u2019t encounter them<\/div>\n
unless you bring them along inside your soul,<\/div>\n
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.<\/div>\n
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Hope your road is a long one.<\/div>\n
May there be many summer mornings when,<\/div>\n
with what pleasure, what joy,<\/div>\n
you enter harbors you\u2019re seeing for the first time;<\/div>\n
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations<\/div>\n
to buy fine things,<\/div>\n
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,<\/div>\n
sensual perfume of every kind\u2014<\/div>\n
as many sensual perfumes as you can;<\/div>\n
and may you visit many Egyptian cities<\/div>\n
to learn and go on learning from their scholars.<\/div>\n
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Keep Ithaka always in your mind.<\/div>\n
Arriving there is what you\u2019re destined for.<\/div>\n
But don\u2019t hurry the journey at all.<\/div>\n
Better if it lasts for years,<\/div>\n
so you\u2019re old by the time you reach the island,<\/div>\n
wealthy with all you\u2019ve gained on the way,<\/div>\n
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.<\/div>\n
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Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.<\/div>\n
Without her you wouldn’t have set out.<\/div>\n
She has nothing left to give you now.<\/div>\n
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And if you find her poor, Ithaka won\u2019t have fooled you.<\/div>\n
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,<\/div>\n
you\u2019ll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.<\/div>\n
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C. P. Cavafy, “The City” from C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems. <\/em>Translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Translation Copyright \u00a9 1975, 1992 by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Reproduced with permission of Princeton University Press.<\/span><\/div>\n
Source: C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems<\/em> (Princeton University Press, 1975)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BY C. P. CAVAFY TRANSLATED BY EDMUND KEELEY   As you set out for Ithaka hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians, Cyclops, angry Poseidon\u2014don\u2019t be afraid of them: you\u2019ll never find things like that on your way as long as you keep your thoughts raised high, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1707","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2330,"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1707\/revisions\/2330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}