“Travellers like poets are mostly an angry race.”
"Narrative of a Trip to Harar" (11 June 1855); published in The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society (June 1855)
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“The white race is "a race that travels forever on an upward path."”
“The whole race is a poet that writes down
The eccentric propositions of its fate.”
"Men Made Out of Words"
Transport to Summer (1947)
Context: Life consists
Of propositions about life. The human
Revery is a solitude in which
We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By the terrible incantations of defeats
And by the fear that the defeats and the dreams are one. The whole race is a poet that writes down
The eccentric propositions of its fate.
Source: Posted on @angelovulpini, Instagram (May 29, 2019)
“It doesn't have to be like that but mostly it is.”
Source: Written on the Body
Sydney Morning Herald interview (2003)
“I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.”
Interview http://www.expectingrain.com/dok/int/shelton1978.07.29.html with Robert Shelton, Melody Maker (29 July 1978)
Canto IV, conclusion
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
Of Anger
Essays (1625)
Context: To seek to extinguish anger utterly, is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: Be angry, but sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger. Anger must be limited and confined, both in race and in time.