Author: C. P. Cavafy

Cited by

• Tabish Khair (1)
  • IN: The Thing About Thugs (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...since history has devoted Just a few lines to you. I had more freedom To fashion you in my mind's eye...
    FROM: Caesarian, (1918), NULL, Egypt
• Brendan Kiely (1)
  • IN: The Last True Love Story (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Wise as you will have become, so full of experience, you will have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.
    FROM: Ithaka, (1911), NULL, Egypt/Greece
• Kenny Fries (1)
  • IN: Body, Remember: A Memoir (1997) Memoir, American
    EPIGRAPH: Body, remember not only how much you were loved, not only the beds you lay on, but also thosedesires glowing openly in eyes that looked at you trembling for you in voices -- only some chance obstacle frustrated them Nowthat it's all finally in yhe past, it seems almostas if you gave yourself to those desires too -- how they glowed remember, in eyes that looked at you, remember body, how they trembled for you in those voices
    FROM: "Body, Remember", (1918), Poem, Egypt
• Peter Nichols (1)
  • IN: The Rocks (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: 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... 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.
    FROM: Ithaka, (1911), Poem, Egypt
• Anne Zouroudi (1)
  • IN: The Whispers of Nemesis (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: His end was recorded somewhere and then lost; Or perhaps History passed it by, And with good reason, a thing as trivial as that she didn't deign to record.
    FROM: Orophernes, (1915), Poem, Egypt
• Steven Saylor (1)
  • IN: Wrath of the Furies (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The war with the Romans has begun.… How will our glorious king Mithradates Dionysus Eupator find time to listen to Greek poetry now?
    FROM: Darius, (1920), Poem, Egypt
• Alexander Maksik (1)
  • IN: Shelter In Place (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I created you while I was happy, while I was sad, with so many incidens, so many details. And, for me, the whole of you has been transformed into feeling.
    FROM: "In the Same Space", (1975), Poem, Egypt
• Sergei Lebedev (1)
  • IN: The Year of the Comet (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: and now faint with fear, the miserable Lares scramble to the back of the shrine, shoving each other and stumbling, one little god falling over another, because they know what kind of sound that is, know by now the footsteps of the Furies.
    FROM: Footsteps, (1909), Poem, Egypt
• Caroline Brothers (1)
  • IN: Hinterland (2011) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: When you start on the way to Ithaca, Wish that he way be long
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Egypt