<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=426689" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Odysseus to Telemachus</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My dear Telemachus,<br> The Trojan War <br>is over now; I don't recall who won it. <br>The Greeks, no doubt, for only they would leave<br>so many dead so far from their own homeland. <br>But still, my homeward way has proved too long. <br>While we were wasting time there, old Poseidon, <br>it almost seems, stretched and extended space.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I don't know where I am or what this place <br>can be. It would appear some filthy island, <br>with bushes, buildings, and great grunting pigs. <br>A garden choked with weeds; some queen or other. <br>Grass and huge stones . . . Telemachus, my son! <br>To a wanderer the faces of all islands <br>resemble one another. And the mind <br>trips, numbering waves; eyes, sore from sea horizons, <br>run; and the flesh of water stuffs the ears. <br>I can't remember how the war came out; <br>even how old you are--I can't remember.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Grow up, then, my Telemachus, grow strong. <br>Only the gods know if we'll see each other <br>again. You've long since ceased to be that babe <br>before whom I reined in the plowing bullocks. <br>Had it not been for Palamedes' trick <br>we two would still be living in one household. <br>But maybe he was right; away from me <br>you are quite safe from all Oedipal passions, <br>and your dreams, my Telemachus, are blameless.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Joseph+Brodsky">Joseph Brodsky</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=426689" data-title="Odysseus to Telemachus de Joseph Brodsky" data-description="My dear Telemachus, The Trojan War is over now; I don't recall who won it. The Greeks, no doubt, for only they would leave so many dead so far from their own homeland. But still, my homeward way has proved too long. While we were wasting time..."></div> </div> </div>

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