#odyssey

I fancied my luck to be witnessing yet another full moon. True, I’d seen hundreds of full moons in my life, but they were not limitless. When one starts thinking of the full moon as a common sight that will come again to one’s eyes ad-infinitum, the value of life is diminished and life goes by uncherished. ‘This may be my last moon,’ I sighed, feeling a sudden sweep of sorrow; and went back to reading more of The Odyssey. ↗

— Roman Payne

#homer #life #moon #nature #poetry

We are on a difficult course, on a new Odyssey for Greece, but we know the road to Ithaca and have charted the waters. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

#course #difficult #greece #know #new

If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction. ↗

— Matthew Modine

#accomplish #art #creates #direction #etc

The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#affirms #course #diverse #experiences #his

And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved. ↗

— Homer

#journey #odyssey #love

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#inconsistencies #many #odyssey #story #told

I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it. ↗

— Larry Wachowski

#get #i #i always #odyssey #out

I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#after #because #being #dog #his

As you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that your journey be a long one, filled with adventure, filled with discovery. Laestrygonians and Cyclopes, the angry Poseidon--do not fear them: you'll never find such things on your way unless your sight is set high, unless a rare excitement stirs your spirit and your body. The Laestrygonians and Cyclopes, the savage Poseidon--you won't meet them so long as you do not admit them to your soul, as long as your soul does not set them before you. Pray that your road is a long one. May there be many summer mornings when with what pleasure, with what joy, you enter harbors never seen before. May you stop at Phoenician stations of trade to buy fine things, mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony, and voluptuous perfumes of every kind-- buy as many voluptuous perfumes as you can. And may you go to many Egyptian cities to learn and learn from those who know. Always keep Ithaca in your mind. You are destined to arrive there. But don't hurry your journey at all. Far better if it takes many years, and if you are old when you anchor at the island, rich with all you have gained on the way, not expecting that Ithaca will give you wealth. Ithaca has given you a beautiful journey. Without her you would never have set out. She has no more left to give you. And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not mocked you. As wise as you have become, so filled with experience, you will have understood what these Ithacas signify. ↗

— Barry B. Powell

#greek #ithaca #myth #odysseus #odyssey

down the dank mouldering paths and past the Ocean's streams they went and past the White Rock and the Sun's Western Gates and past the Land of Dreams, and soon they reached the fields of asphodel where the dead, the burnt-out wraiths of mortals make their home ↗

— Homer

#city-of-dreams #homer #odyssey #underworld #dreams