“And oft I thought (my fancy was-so strong)
That I, at last, a resting-place had found:
'Here: will I dwell,' said I,' my whole life long,
Roaming the illimitable waters round;
Here will I live, of all but heaven disowned.
And end my days upon the peaceful flood—
To break my dream the vessel reached its bound;
And homeless near a thousand homes I stood,
And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.”

V. 219–220 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 2, “An Abode of Ravens: When the Baobhas Sang” (p. 367)

Told to Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, as quoted in Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food (New York: Norton & Company, 2009. ISBN 978-0-393-06595-4), Introduction, p. 15 https://books.google.it/books?id=-LeUV2wr2BoC&pg=PA15.

Source: Cider with Rosie (1959), p. 262.

Ballad Stanzas.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Said while making Fitzcarraldo
Herzog on Herzog (2002)

Epitaph he composed for himself a few months before he died, as quoted in Calculusː Multivariable (2006) by Steven G. Krantz and Brian E. Blank. p. 126
Unsourced variant: I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.

Sketch of Life of Samuel Rutherford (Andrew Bonar)

Source: Song My Way