One candle is enough. Its gentle light will be more suitable, will be more gracious when the Shades arrive, the Shades of Love.

A month passes by and brings another month. Easy to guess what lies ahead: all of yesterday's boredom. And tomorrow ends up no longer like tomorrow.

That we've broken their statues, that we've driven them out of their temples, doesn't mean at all that the gods are dead. O land of Ionia, they're still in love with you, their souls still keep your memory.

Arriving there is what you are destined for

Have Ithaka always in your mind. Your arrival there is what you are destined for. But don't in the least hurry the journey.

What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.

On hearing about powerful love, respond, be moved like an aesthete. Only, fortunate as you've been, remember how much your imagination created for you.