"And if you find her poor, Ithaca has……" — Constantine Peter Cavafy
"And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean."
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Constantine Peter Cavafy
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13 Quotes by Constantine Peter Cavafy
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When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full of…
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What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.
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Return often and take me, beloved sensation, return and take me - When memory of the body awakens, and old…
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Arriving there is what you are destined for
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Give me artificial flowers - porcelain and metal glories - neither fading nor decaying, forms unaging. Flowers of the splendid…
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My life has been awaiting you. Your footfall was my own heart's beat.
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Have Ithaka always in your mind. Your arrival there is what you are destined for. But don't in the least…
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Days to come stand in front of us like a row of lighted candles— golden, warm, and vivid candles. Days…
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to certain people there comes a day when they must say the great Yes or the great No...
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Don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now, work gone wrong, your plans all proving deceptive — don’t mourn them uselessly.…
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And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not…
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Body, remember not only how much you were loved Not only the beds you lay on, But also those desires…
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