I.13 Productive | Receptive, p. 33
1921 - 1930, Pedagogical Sketch Book, (1925)
As quoted in Steps to the Top (1985) by Zig Ziglar, p. 16
“Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.”
"Proverbios y cantares XXIX" [Proverbs and Songs 29], Campos de Castilla (1912); trans. Betty Jean Craige in Selected Poems of Antonio Machado (Louisiana State University Press, 1979)
Context: Wanderer, your footprints are
the path, and nothing else;
wanderer, there is no path,
the path is made by walking.
Walking makes the path,
and on glancing back
one sees the path
that will never trod again.
Wanderer, there is no path—
Just steles in the sea.
trans. Michael Chase (1995), p. 153
La Philosophie comme manière de vivre (2001)
“You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 618.
“Getting lost along your path is a part of finding the path you are meant to be on.”
Source: The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life
“The white race is "a race that travels forever on an upward path."”
Source: The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
“It looks like poets will always have their work cut out for them.”
The Poet and the World (1996)
Context: Granted, in daily speech, where we don't stop to consider every word, we all use phrases like "the ordinary world," "ordinary life," "the ordinary course of events"… But in the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world.
It looks like poets will always have their work cut out for them.
“The way of truth is along the path of intellectual sincerity.”
Address to students, quoted in Abraham Flexner, Henry S. Pritchett: A Biography (Columbia University Press, 1943; University of Virginia digitization, May 2, 2008, 211 pages), p. 192
