Arriving there is what you are destined for

The days of the future stand in front of us Like a line of candles all alight Golden and warm and lively little candles.

Of what's to come the wise perceive things about to happen. Sometimes during moments of intense study their hearing's troubled: the hidden sound of things approaching reaches them, and they listen reverently, while in the street outside the people hear nothing whatsoever.

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

I'm practically broke and homeless. This fatal city, Antioch, has devoured all my money: this fatal city with its extravagant life.

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

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