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But the Wise Perceive Things about to Happen

But the Wise Perceive Things about to Happen

“For the gods perceive future things,
ordinary people things in the present, but
the wise perceive things about to happen.”

Philostratos, Life of Apollonios of Tyana, viii, 7.

Ordinary people know what’s happening now,
the gods know future things
because they alone are totally enlightened.
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.

 

 

 

C.P. Cavafy
Translated by Edmund Keeley/Philip Sherrard

 

 

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