<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358791" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Returning From Greece</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well, we're nearly there, Hermippos.<br>Day after tomorrow, it seems - that's what the captain said.<br>At least we're sailing our seas,<br>the waters of our own countries - Cyprus, Syria, Egypt - <br>waters we know and love.<br>Why so silent? Ask your heart:<br>didn't you too feel happier<br>the further we got from Greece?<br>What's the point of fooling ourselves?<br>That wouldn't be properly Greek, would it?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's time we admitted the truth:<br>we're Greeks also - what else are we?-<br>but with Asiatic tastes and feelings,<br>tastes and feelings<br>sometimes alien to Hellenism.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It isn't correct, Hermippos, for us philosophers<br>to be like some of our petty kings<br>(remember how we laughed at them<br>when they used to come to our lectures?)<br>who through their showy Hellenified exteriors<br>(Macedonian exteriors, naturally)<br>let a bit of Arabia peep out now and then,<br>a bit of Media they can't keep back.<br>And to what laughable lengths the fools went<br>trying to cover it up!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No, that's not at all correct for us.<br>For Greeks like us that kind of pettiness won't do.<br>We simply can't be ashamed<br>of the Syrian and Egyptian blood in our veins;<br>we should really honour it, delight in it.</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=358791" data-title="Returning From Greece de Constantine P. Cavafy" data-description="Well, we're nearly there, Hermippos. Day after tomorrow, it seems - that's what the captain said. At least we're sailing our seas, the waters of our own countries - Cyprus, Syria, Egypt - waters we know and love. Why so silent? Ask your heart: di..."></div> </div> </div>

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