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[fridaynotes]

Installation images http://www.baileygallery.com/exhibitions/timothy-hull

[baked-potatoes-rule]

Ithaka

As you set out for Ithaka

hope your road is a long one,

full of adventure, full of discovery.

Laistrygonians, Cyclops,

angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:

you’ll never find things like that on your way

as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,

as long as a rare excitement

stirs your spirit and your body.

Laistrygonians, Cyclops,

wild Poseidon—you won’t encounter them

unless you bring them along inside your soul,

unless your soul sets them up in front of you.

Hope your road is a long one.

May there be many summer mornings when,

with what pleasure, what joy,

you enter harbors you’re seeing for the first time;

may you stop at Phoenician trading stations

to buy fine things,

mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,

sensual perfume of every kind—

as many sensual perfumes as you can;

and may you visit many Egyptian cities

to learn and go on learning from their scholars.

Keep Ithaka always in your mind.

Arriving there is what you’re destined for.

But don’t hurry the journey at all.

Better if it lasts for years,

so you’re old by the time you reach the island,

wealthy with all you’ve gained on the way,

not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.

Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.

Without her you wouldn't have set out.

She has nothing left to give you now.

And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you.

Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,

you’ll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.

C.P.Cavafy

[baked-potatoes-rule]

C.P.C

[ukdamo]

Dionysus and His Crew

CP Cavafy

[angpama]

Recién llegados que mucho confortan al menesteroso . Newly arrived books that much comfort the needy . #cpcavafy #completepoems #danielmendelsohn #harperpress #bramstoker #dracula #mauricehindle #penguinclassics #christopherfrayling #vampyres #faberandfaber #francescparcerisas #seixantaunpoemes #alejandrocéspedes #sobreandamiosdehumo #iharasaikaku #elgranespejodelamorentrehombres #satoriediciones #entrepoetas #amongpoets #entreamigos #amongfriends #amongclassics #entreclásicos #librosqueridos #belovedbooks #siempreelmejorregalounlibro #abookthebestgiftalways #veryveryhappy (en Cartagena, Murcia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCOz_MwFeUB/?igshid=1a4i62stafx8u

[aniketosomina]

“...One little god falling over another, because they know what kind of sound that is, know by now the footsteps of the Furies.” Cavafy, always Cavafy, my eternal comfort, my fellow melancholy dreamer of shadows and dead empires and the passing of tyrants. #cavafy #cpcavafy #poetry #poetryintranslation #edmundkeeley #philipsherrard #hogarthpress #footsteps #fate #time #furies #tyranny #rome #nero #alexandria #ancienthistory #poetry #books #bookstagram #bibliophilia https://www.instagram.com/p/CA5vLxvH9vF/?igshid=1wejd8lkrkvk6

[brickstory]

Shared from @sperk01 . They must still be around somewhere, those old things. Beside the window the bed; the afternoon sun used to touch half of it. . . . One afternoon at four o’clock we separated for a week only. . . And then— that week became forever. . #CPCAVAFY, #tv_doorsandwindows #archi_ologie #oldhouselove #facadelovers #chasing_facades #theprettycities #travelblogger #lifestyleblogger #thecreatorclass #outofthephone #oldhouselove, #thisaintartschool #snapseed #tinycollective #houseportrait #chicagogram #moody_grams #royalsnappingartists #at_diff, #storyteller, #travelnow, #tellusyourstory #americanneighborhoods #createeveryday #onmywalk, #brickstory . Tell us your story... (at Chicago, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9FT1B_APp4/?igshid=1s06jhijb29tv

[nellyg14]

"As you set out for Ithaka, hope the journey is a long one. Full of adventure, full of discovery." #ithaka #cpcavafy #ithaca