Travel and Horizons

Much have I travelled in the realms of gold,

Away! away! for I will fly to thee,

Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.

For I dipp’d into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain’d a ghastly dew From the nations’ airy navies grappling in the central blue.

 

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. J. R. R.

 

Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough

 

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it .

Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand.

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I ask, the heaven above And the road below me.

They say travel broadens the mind; but you must have the mind.

Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales.

 

Oh, young Lochinvar is come out of the West, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best.

A merry road, a mazy road, and such as we did tread

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

If with me you’d fondly stray.

The innocents abroad.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

Here at the quiet limit of the world.

 

What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside 72 over mountains and valleys, if it is not for the beauty of the world of nature?

It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.