tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6886141433809015993.post7197493098630123981..comments2017-06-25T14:41:10.905-07:00Comments on nem todas as margaridas são flores: What is home?Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18018050350765921495noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6886141433809015993.post-50134491553447256932017-03-23T12:34:01.546-07:002017-03-23T12:34:01.546-07:00Interesting that when I entered Reticências theatr...Interesting that when I entered Reticências theatre group, this was one the first poems we recited on a play. <br />Like places, is good to revisit poems because when you do so, we'll find new meanings... not in the poems, but in yourself.Maggiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18018050350765921495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6886141433809015993.post-65331352400388639282017-03-22T15:31:53.171-07:002017-03-22T15:31:53.171-07:00As you set out for Ithaka
hope the voyage is a lon...As you set out for Ithaka<br />hope the voyage is a long one,<br />full of adventure, full of discovery.<br />Laistrygonians and Cyclops,<br />angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:<br />you’ll never find things like that on your way<br />as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,<br />as long as a rare excitement<br />stirs your spirit and your body.<br />Laistrygonians and Cyclops,<br />wild Poseidon—you won’t encounter them<br />unless you bring them along inside your soul,<br />unless your soul sets them up in front of you.<br /> <br />Hope the voyage is a long one.<br />May there be many a summer morning when,<br />with what pleasure, what joy,<br />you come into harbors seen for the first time;<br />may you stop at Phoenician trading stations<br />to buy fine things,<br />mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,<br />sensual perfume of every kind—<br />as many sensual perfumes as you can;<br />and may you visit many Egyptian cities<br />to gather stores of knowledge from their scholars.<br /> <br />Keep Ithaka always in your mind.<br />Arriving there is what you are destined for.<br />But do not hurry the journey at all.<br />Better if it lasts for years,<br />so you are old by the time you reach the island,<br />wealthy with all you have gained on the way,<br />not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.<br /> <br />Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.<br />Without her you would not have set out.<br />She has nothing left to give you now.<br /> <br />And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you.<br />Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,<br />you will have understood by then what these Ithakas mean. - Cavafy teresahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03401768813585883951noreply@blogger.com