“Tell me, O muse, of travellers far and wide”
Homér Ancient Greek epic poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
“Glorious, stirring sight! The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today — in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped — always somebody else’s horizon! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!”
Toad, Ch. 2
The Wind in the Willows (1908)
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