Don't be afraid, you'll never find things like that on your way...

...If your thoughts are high, if refinement touches, moves your spirit and your body...


...If you don't carry them inside your soul, if your soul does not set them in front of you...




Rough translation of extract of the poem Ithaka - Kavafy from the modern Hellenic original.


For the whole poem see:


http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=74