“Here is your road, tying you to its meanings”

— Muriel Rukeyser

"The Road"
U.S. 1 (1938), The Book of the Dead
Context: Here is your road, tying you to its meanings: gorge, boulder, precipice.
Telescoped down, the hard and stone-green river
cutting fast and direct into the town.

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poet and political activist 1913–1980

Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980) poet and political activist

Source: "The Road" U.S. 1 (1938), The Book of the Dead

“You picked the right road, even though it is the most difficult. That is the essence of heroism. (p. 326)”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

Source: A World Without Heroes

“The long and winding road that leads to your door
Will never disappear,
I've seen that road before it always leads me here,
Leads me to your door.”

Paul McCartney (1942) English singer-songwriter and composer

"The Long and Winding Road" from Let It Be (1970)
Lyrics, The Beatles

“Which road, which road did you take
That brought you here at last?

No road, no road did I take.
I leaped, I leaped from dream to dream.”

Franz Werfel (1890–1945) Austrian-Bohemian author

“P. P. S. Just because I like you, it doesn't mean I still don't think you're an evil creature of the night. You are.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

“Your questions refer to words; so I have to talk about words.
You say: The point isn't the word, but its meaning, and you think of the meaning as a thing of the same kind as the word, though also different from the word. Here the word, there the meaning.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein book Philosophical Investigations

§ 120
Philosophical Investigations (1953)

“To oppose something is to maintain it.
They say here “all roads lead to Mishnory.” To be sure, if you turn your back on Mishnory and walk away from it, you are still on the Mishnory road. To oppose vulgarity is inevitably to be vulgar. You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.”

Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle

Source: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 11 “Soliloquies in Mishnory” (p. 151)

“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

“The thing I want to know is, if you tell your brain not to do stuff… and it keeps doing it anyway, does that mean your mind has a mind of its own? And if it does, then who's in charge here, anyway?”

Jane Yolen book Armageddon Summer

Source: Armageddon Summer

“Sometimes, divine revelation simply means adjusting your brain to hear what your heart already knows."
Angels and Demons p. 484”

Dan Brown (1964) American author

“Here is your road, tying you to its meanings”

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