I use this poem in my philosophy lessons to talk about the Epicurean school. I have it in my office hanging on a notice board. I try to live as the poem says.
I’ve loved Cavafy for 50 years but only discovered this poem in Bali in 2018, at a Warung called Ithaka I found a copy of The Odyssey. So synchronic! Then tonight looking up Sir Sean on IMDb I saw he’d recorded the poem. Thanks for posting!
a wonderful poem, full of sensation and depth in simplicity. Sean Connery's supreme voicing makes it even much more exalted. thanks Kavafis, thanks Sir connery and adsdentiste for the vid. Greetings from Constantinopoli, Anatolia.
Constantinopoli was the birthcity of Greek Kavafis .Constantinopoli is the Greek capital city that Greeks never liberate from the ottomans.it will be ours one day
Everybody looks for their Ithaka. It takes a long time to make this journey because it's a journey of wisdom... full of experiences and adversities. This is your treasure!!!! Be grateful for this long journey and happy for your failures because this will be your best and biggest achievement of your life. Don't hesitate to start the journey! It will reward you!!! It will please you!!! It will make you complete!!! It will be the reason for your life.... to test your stamina but you'll become a better man, afterall!!!! Evidently, it is worth any effort!!!! In the end you will find out that your destination is the destiny of your unique and wise existence and that matters!!!
Cavafis we will not find someone like you in our ways but we keep you always in our mind. Cavafis death and born date in this month April god rest your soul cavafis
C’est beau comme la non-rétractabilité des serres des oiseaux rapaces; ou encore, comme l'incertitude des mouvements musculaires dans les plaies des parties molles de la région cervicale postérieure !
