Travel and Horizons

I’d like to get away from earth awhile

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

The East is a career.

There’s milestones on the Dover Road!

listen: there’s a hell

AM IN MARKET HARBOROUGH. WHERE OUGHT i TO BE?

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

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

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

‘What’s the good of Mercator’s North Poles and Equators,

I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he;

How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix.

In America there are two classes of travel—first class, and with children.

ESTRAGON : Charming spot. Inspiring prospects. Let’s go.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Look, stranger, at this island now.

A thousand-mile journey starts under your feet.

When your rooster crows at the break of dawn Look out your window and I’ll be gone You’re the reason I’m trav’lin’ on Don’t think twice, it’s all right

It is 12:20 in New York a Friday three days after Bastille Day, yes it is 1959 and I go get a shoeshine because I will get off the 4:19 in Easthampton at 7:15 and then go straight to dinner and I don’t know the people who will feed me

Color of cinnamon Clove’s sweet smell, I’ve come a long way To see Gabrielle.

Should we have stayed at home, wherever that may be?

Come up with me, American love. Kiss these secret stones with me. The torrential silver of the Urubamba makes the pollen fly to its golden cup. The hollow of the bindweed’s maze, the petrified plant, the inflexible garland, soar above the silence of these mountain coffers.

But fare forward, voyagers.