<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358744" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ithaca</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When you set out for Ithaka<br>ask that your way be long,<br>full of adventure, full of instruction.<br>The Laistrygonians and the Cyclops,<br>angry Poseidon - do not fear them:<br>such as these you will never find<br>as long as your thought is lofty, as long as a rare<br>emotion touch your spirit and your body.<br>The Laistrygonians and the Cyclops,<br>angry Poseidon - you will not meet them<br>unless you carry them in your soul,<br>unless your soul raise them up before you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ask that your way be long.<br>At many a Summer dawn to enter<br>with what gratitude, what joy -<br>ports seen for the first time;<br>to stop at Phoenician trading centres,<br>and to buy good merchandise,<br>mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,<br>and sensuous perfumes of every kind,<br>sensuous perfumes as lavishly as you can;<br>to visit many Egyptian cities,<br>to gather stores of knowledge from the learned.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Have Ithaka always in your mind.<br>Your arrival there is what you are destined for.<br>But don't in the least hurry the journey.<br>Better it last for years,<br>so that when you reach the island you are old,<br>rich with all you have gained on the way,<br>not expecting Ithaka to give you wealth.<br>Ithaka gave you a splendid journey.<br>Without her you would not have set out.<br>She hasn't anything else to give you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And if you find her poor, Ithaka hasn't deceived you.<br>So wise you have become, of such experience,<br>that already you'll have understood what these Ithakas mean.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Constantine+P.+Cavafy">Constantine P. Cavafy</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358744" data-title="Ithaca de Constantine P. Cavafy" data-description="When you set out for Ithaka ask that your way be long, full of adventure, full of instruction. The Laistrygonians and the Cyclops, angry Poseidon - do not fear them: such as these you will never find as long as your thought is lofty, as long as a ..."></div> </div> </div>

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