Up: [[Greek Mythology]] Created: 2022-12-10 When his hosts would ask him late in the evening to tell of his voyages and the perils they brought, the words came easily enough, but he never knew just how to convey the fear and with what startling language to let them perceive, as he had, that distant island turn to gold across the blue and sudden stillness of the sea. The sight of it announces a menace different from the storm and fury which had always signaled danger. Silently it casts its spell upon the sailors. They know that on that golden island there is sometimes a singing — and they lean on their oars, like blind men, as though imprisoned by the stillness. That quiet contains all that is. It enters the ear as if it were the other side of the singing that no one resists. > [!user] [[Rainer Maria Rilke]], *New Poems*