“To go where no one else has ever gone before is the secret of heroism.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
Simplicity http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21390/Simplicity <br class="br">From the poems written in English
“To go where no one else has ever gone before is the secret of heroism.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
Simplicity http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21390/Simplicity <br class="br">From the poems written in English
Ariana Reines (1982) American writer
On the practice of poetry in “Ariana Reines Knows That Not All Surrender Is Bad” https://nylon.com/ariana-reines-sand-book-interview in Nylon Magazine (2019 Oct 15)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) French writer and aviator
Ch III : The Tool
Terre des Hommes (1939)
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
Sn 3.2, Buddha's Purpose
Pali Canon, Sutta Pitaka, Khuddaka Nikaya (Minor Collection), Sutta Nipata (Suttas falling down), Sutta 3.2. Padhana Sutta
James Branch Cabell book Figures of Earth
Manuel, in Ch. I : How Manuel Left the Mire
Figures of Earth (1921)
Context: I shall not ever return to you, my pigs, because, at worst, to die valorously is better than to sleep out one's youth in the sun. A man has but one life. It is his all. Therefore I now depart from you, my pigs, to win me a fine wife and much wealth and leisure wherein to discharge my geas. And when my geas is lifted I shall not come back to you, my pigs, but I shall travel everywhither, and into the last limits of earth, so that I may see the ends of this world and may judge them while my life endures. For after that, they say, I judge not, but am judged: and a man whose life has gone out of him, my pigs, is not even good bacon.
Miriam Makeba (1932–2008) South African singer and civil rights activist
As quoted in Nkrumah, Gamal (1–7 November 2001)
Al-Ahram Weekly interview (2001)
Kanye West (1977) American rapper, singer and songwriter
Welcome to Heartbreak
Lyrics, 808s & Heartbreak (2008)
José Martí (1853–1895) Poet, writer, Cuban nationalist leader
Yo soy un hombre sincero<br>De donde crece la palma<br>Y antes de morirme quiero<br>Echar mis versos del alma. <br class="br">I (Yo soy un hombre sincero) as translated by Esther Allen in José Martí : Selected Writings (2002), p. 273, ISBN 0142437042 <br class="br">Variant translations: <br class="br">A sincere man am I<br>From the land where palm trees grow,<br>And I want before I die<br>My soul's verses to bestow. <br class="br"> "A Sincere Man Am I" http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/46409-Jose-Marti-A-Sincere-Man-Am-I---Verse-I-, as translated by Manuel A. Tellechea, in Versos Sencillos: Simple Verses (1997) ISBN 1558852042 <br class="br">I am a sincere man<br>from where the palm tree grows,<br> and before I die I wish<br>to pour forth the verses from my soul. <br class="br">Simple Verses (1891)
Dean Koontz (1945) American author
Source: Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure