“Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.”
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Walt Whitman 181
American poet, essayist and journalist 1819–1892Related quotes
"A Pre-Raphaelite Notebook" 1-3, Tenebrae.
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“Before I traveled my road I was my road.”
Antes de recorrer mi camino yo era mi camino.
Voces (1943)

“The church of my choice is the free, open world.”
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The Marginal Safari: Scouting the Edge of South Africa (2010)

“He made the world to be a grassy road
Before her wandering feet.”
St. 3
The Rose (1893), The Rose of the World
Context: Bow down, archangels, in your dim abode:
Before you were, or any hearts to beat,
Weary and kind one lingered by His seat;
He made the world to be a grassy road
Before her wandering feet.