“No one can help going beyond, and beyond there is an abyss.”
Nadie puede no ir más allá. Y más allá hay un abismo.
Voces (1943)
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“Who wants to go beyond the Bojador
Must go beyond pain.”
Fernando Pessoa book Mensagem
Poem "Mar Português", Verses 9-10
Message
Original: Quem quer passar além do Bojador
Tem que passar além da dor.
Helena Roerich (1879–1955) Russian philosopher
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Leaves of Morya’s Garden: Book Two: Illumination (1925)
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In conversation with Archimandrite Ephraim of Vatopedi, 20 September 1992
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“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”
John Locke book An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Book II, Ch. 1, sec. 19
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
“Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.”
Mary Renault book The Bull from the Sea
The Bull from the Sea (1962)
“We have to make an effort to understand, to get beyond, or go beyond these rather difficult times.”
Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy
Speech on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1968)
Context: Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort. In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it's perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in. For those of you who are black -- considering the evidence evidently is that there were white people who were responsible -- you can be filled with bitterness, and with hatred, and a desire for revenge. We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization -- black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled with hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand, and to comprehend, and replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand, compassion, and love. [... ] But we have to make an effort in the United States. We have to make an effort to understand, to get beyond, or go beyond these rather difficult times.
“Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.”
Stephen Spender (1909–1995) English poet and man of letters
As quoted in The New York Times (26 March 1961)
