Sean Connery reads ITHAKA | Powerful Life Poem by C.P.Cavafy
Ithaka presents the meaning of life, achieving one's goals, and taking on the ultimate journey to fulfill one's life pursuit. While you are on this journey, you will encounter many a stumbling block, but if you are steadfast in following your dreams, nothing will bother you.
Ithaka by C.P. Cavafy
As you set out for Ithaka
hope your journey is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
angry Poseidon-don’t be afraid of them:
you’ll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
wild Poseidon-you won’t encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.
Hope your journey is a long one.
May there be many summer mornings when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you enter harbors you’re seeing for the first time;
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations
to buy fine things,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
sensual perfume of every kind-
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
and may you visit many Egyptian cities
to learn and go on learning from their scholars.
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.
She has nothing left to give you now.
And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you’ll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.
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To be honest, Sean Connery could read a grocery list and I'd be transfixed.
@linlee5162
Жыл бұрын
Yesss, amazing voice❤
@panagiotisbailos195
Жыл бұрын
Maybe... But even the grocery man could read K. KAVAFI make you transfixed... ❤
@HeronCoyote1234
11 ай бұрын
Back in the 50s, it was said Yves Montand could read the telephone book, and women would swoon. Sean Connery is a more modern version of that.
@2289m
2 ай бұрын
totally!
@kausamsalam8543
26 күн бұрын
Yes:))
Wow. I had no idea. What a loss to the world. RIP - Sean Connery.
“Shyclops, angry Poshidons” love Sean Connery
@tomsimmonds534
3 жыл бұрын
Shaken, not shtirred 😅
@peterjeffery8495
2 жыл бұрын
Yesh Sean came over on Shaterday night for a wee game of Parcheeshee...aye twash gud!
@josie4065
Жыл бұрын
This is the first time I have ever heard this poem, and I'm so glad it's in his voice.
@573gwills3
Жыл бұрын
God shave the Queen. 🪒 👸 That’s not what I shaid!
@leog1676
Жыл бұрын
You mean “Shean” Connery XD
Such a lovely and beautiful reminder that we each have our personal journeys to make towards our own “Ithaka” -our Destiny.♥️ “But do not hurry the journey at all…not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.”🌻♥️
He knows not where he’s going , For the Ocean will decide , For it’s not the Destination , But the glory of the ride
Have never heard this poem before; I hope never to unhear it! Beautiful!!
Nada es una casualidad, que poema mas hermoso e inspirador parto mi camino hacia Itaca. 🥰🥰🥰
We're taught this poem as teenagers in greek schools. I was always interested in the humanities and poetry even then, but the beautiful thing about this poem is that it touches everyone, regardless their interests. I remember even the most indifferent student, put effort to participate in this specific class...
@innosanto
Жыл бұрын
We study Cabafy in Greece but not enough. Same for Kazantzakis and Sikelianos. We are busy searching for grades without building the values structure to be backbone of the search. Now we require to build the free time and motivation to study those and other wroters at later stages of life.
@anastasiakourelis3661
6 ай бұрын
I remember being taught this in Greek class and being totally fascinated . I would’ve been 15 years old, young and naive but was captured by the depth of the poem. I was excited to grow up and experience life and gain wisdom . It made me wonder about what my journey would be like .
Cavafy is one of my favorite poets... Connery is one of my favorite actors.. This video is perfect
Ithaka was a very close family friends favorite poem. She passed on Feb 1st. I've known her since I can remember & I'm still close friends with her children. This poem fits her perfectly !!
@heat_wave5774
Жыл бұрын
Sounds like she had a wonderful soul! So sorry for your loss.
May there be many summer mornings.
Sean Connery could read the yellow pages & I'd be happy.
I am a devoted reader of Cavafy : It is an experience to hear * Ithaka* read by the late Sir Sean Connery. Thank you.
@xrhstos8185
2 жыл бұрын
Whats your favourtie Kavafis poem? Mine is deffinetely The God abandonds Antony. Totally different experience reading it in Greek as well !
God rest you our son of Scotland.
His voice reverberates through the years.
I’m so moved by the poem and by Sean”s voice!
@upgradeyourmindset1105
2 жыл бұрын
Glad to share it
Mr. Connery your voice was magnificent and I loved your acting...R.I.P. you were an amazing human being...😇❤💐🌺🌹⚘🌸🌺💐🌹🌼⚘🌺
@robs4988
2 жыл бұрын
No he wasn't. He wasn't nice at all.
1.45 is definitely worth multiple replays just to hear Sean say 'Sensual'.
Not all things are the same. There are differences in this world, however, a rose by any other name still smells as sweet!
Wow, it's so beautiful so inspiring. It's all about the process! End result is trivial.
This is just overwhelming!
beautiful voice, thanks Sean
The clips have nothing to do with the poem . When Cavafy said “and then when you're old to stay on the island, wealthy with all you've gained on the way” ( 2:24 ) I’m pretty sure he wasn’t talking about two old tourists having a gondola ride in Venice.
@janeydoe901
2 жыл бұрын
My thoughts exactly 🤣
@kleitosaliagas5668
Жыл бұрын
I just sailed to Ithika for the first time a few months ago and thought it would be so much nicer if they had put images of the actual island (really breath taking).
@jlodge9281
7 ай бұрын
Isn’t Ithaca “home?”
beautiful.
My favourite poem.
I miss Sean very much.
A Big BRAVOOO from me a Caring GREEK, to Konstantinos Kavafis, our Greek Poet of 1920, to You, dear Publisher of this AudioVideo and to Sean Connery for his Esteem to this Greek Poem!!! Fellow People, which I LOVE-RESPECT YOU ALL, Let us THINK-SEARCH-TALK-ACT for our PURPOSE in this MORTAL LIFE we were offered [by GOOD CREATOR-GOD of PURE LOVE for Me, Jesus Christ!] and let's NOT get carried Αway by Superficial thoughts-talks-acts, which are NOT permanent but Mortal-Deperibile and HARM us! MY PURPOSE.... is the ABSOLUTE-PURE-UNSTOPPABLE LOVE to My Body-Soul-Life-Job-Things, to EVERY Person next to me and to the WHOLEEE World, so that I offer the BEST I can for the COMMON GOOD, so that I STOP evil or Fight it as strong as I can... and feel-be ALWAYS HAPPY-FEARLESS-INVINCIBLE....IMMORTAL, with my Pray to My CREATOR-SAVIOR too!!! Sofronis, a LOVING GREEK!
A really beautiful vid and meanings ~ Thank you ~ Jen
I had no idea that something like this even existed.
RIP Sir Connery.
Just bought Bombay mix, thanks Amazon.
Sean Connery, "As I shat in my lounge a book fell on my head. I can only blame myshelf."
@najeegilani
2 жыл бұрын
underrated comment
It sounds like Sean Connery doing his Sean Connery impersonation 😂
I would very much enjoy watching the reader of the poetry actually reading the poetry rather than watching these videos - don’t get me wrong, the videos are lovely but I would much rather see Sean ‼️‼️
@leejones3956
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah would be much better without the music too
@carolenash3234
2 жыл бұрын
agreed
@kimjongev
Жыл бұрын
YES
I’m nearly there…
👍👍👍
Here after reading the story of India's New the richest women Falguni Nayyar NAAYKA
Knock Knock Who’s there? Dishes. Dishes who? Dishes the ghost of Sean Connery.
🌱
When was this recorded? Love Mr. Connery's voice :)
@upgradeyourmindset1105
3 жыл бұрын
It was recorded by Sean in 2004
@innosanto
3 жыл бұрын
In the original version Connery did it together with Vangelis, Vangelis background music.
I can see him saying this to Connor mcCleod… the Highlander
R.I.P.BROTER...
It's not that the common worker has forgotten the government. They feel the government has forgotten them. Some how it's left up to the government to change that idea maybe. All votes matter.
When did he read this?
aye
#FreeAssange #ithaka
Would like to know when this was recorded
@muhlenstedt
2 жыл бұрын
2004
“But whether in calm or wrack-wreath, whether by dark or day, I heave them whole to the conger or rip their plates away, First of the scattered legions, under a shrieking sky, Dipping between the rollers, the English Flag goes by. “The dead dumb fog hath wrapped it-the frozen dews have kissed- The naked stars have seen it, a fellow-star in the mist. What is the Flag of England? Ye have but my breath to dare, Ye have but my waves to conquer. Go forth, for it is there!” Rudyard Kipling The English Flag.
Meg Ryan. Oh Dear. Billy Crystal - she didn't mean it. Ithaca - I need to see that movie Backward Thinkers. ACA HTI
Thish poem read by Shean Connery actshually shtruck me.
Didn't I see this last night on Jimmy Kimmel? No... no I did not.
If you find her poor Ithaka wont have fooled you… she gave you the journey nothing more to give you now
Hy sean hy daddy
Anyone else notice the little boy, at about 2:05, step in camel dung and wipe it off his shoe ? .......... I saw it on my way to, "learn and learn again from those who know," while traveling to Ithaka. (lol)
Not sure Penelope and Telemachus in the Odyssey would second the whole "Hope it lasts for years" thing...
@furrygreek5
Жыл бұрын
You're missing the message of the poem. The journey he's speaking of is your own life's Odyssey. He's wishing you a long and happy one, full of wonder and experience.
I don't like English poetry, because it has no rhythm and thus should be called prose which I love. However I love Sean Connery's accent and voishe ♥
With Vangelis music it is better.
Name the real ‘few’ demons.
Though one can understand the message of the poem when translated in English I find it loses something of its authenticity.
@MIB_63
2 жыл бұрын
Would you prefer that it was reserved for the people who speak the language in which it was originally written?
Your mother Trebek 😂
Poor quality dub of the audio
How much do these actors get paid to do this?
I wanted to like this but the audio is horrid. also this isn't a poem, this is an advertisement...(The audio makes sense now.)
I'm sorry, I adore this poem and I think Connery is gorgeous, but shetting out on a journey of dishcovery was just too much.
Wonderful poem. But I didn't care for Connery's reading. His accent seemed out rhythm with the Mediterranean atmosphere engendered by the words.