Savitri (1918-1950), Book Two : The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Context: p>As in a studio of creative Death
The giant sons of Darkness sit and plan
The drama of the earth, their tragic stage.
All who would raise the fallen world must come
Under the dangerous arches of their power;
For even the radiant children of the gods
To darken their privilege is and dreadful right.
None can reach heaven who has not passed through hell.This too the traveller of the worlds must dare.</p
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer
Also used at his funeral (3 Sep. 2009) invitation. Quoted in "Dead stars and classic art will surround Michael Jackson " in CNN.com/entertainment (03 July 2009) http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/03/michael.jackson.funeral/index.html#cnnSTCOther1
“Imitate him if you dare,
World-besotted traveller; he
Served human liberty.”
W.B. Yeats book The Winding Stair and Other Poems
Swift's Epitaph http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1586/. <br class="br">The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933) <br class="br">Context: Swift has sailed into his rest;<br>Savage indignation there<br>Cannot lacerate his breast.<br>Imitate him if you dare,<br>World-besotted traveller; he<br>Served human liberty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Art
Variant: Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Source: Emerson's Essays
Context: Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or rules of art can ever teach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character, — a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Directives on the Cultural Revolution (1966-1972)
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
2 October 1747
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer
The Rubaiyat (1120)
“Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.”
William Makepeace Thackeray book The Luck of Barry Lyndon
The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844), Ch. 13.
Context: Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim. Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.
