“The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.”
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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“Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Book VIII, Chapter 4.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)
James Nicoll (1961) Canadian fiction reviewer
Review of One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/tick, 2018 <br class="br">2010s
“You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.”
Italo Calvino (1923–1985) Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels
Source: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
“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.
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
"Suzanne" - Isle of Wight performance (1970) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_56ep729TE - Live in London (2008) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snMOmHzgssk <br class="br">Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967) <br class="br">Context: Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river.<br>You can hear the boats go by,<br>You can spend the night beside her,<br>And you know that she's half crazy<br>But that's why you want to be there,<br>And she feeds you tea and oranges<br>That come all the way from China.<br>And just when you mean to tell her<br>That you have no love to give her<br>Then she gets you on her wavelength<br>And she lets the river answer<br>That you've always been her lover.<br>And you want to travel with her,<br>And you want to travel blind,<br>And you know that she will trust you,<br>For you've touched her perfect body with your mind.
“Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.”
Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
" A Wind Storm in the Forests of the Yuba http://books.google.com/books?id=zj2gAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA55", Scribner's Monthly, volume XVII, number 1 (November 1878) pages 55-59 (at page 59); modified slightly and reprinted in The Mountains of California http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/the_mountains_of_california/ (1894), chapter 10: A Wind-Storm in the Forests <br class="br">1890s, The Mountains of California (1894)