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The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart....To go alone...into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before they could know… — Thomas Wolfe
A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights. — Charles Simic
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break… — Pat Conroy
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through… — Carl Sagan
It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt tethered by time to the… — China Mieville
Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come?… — Thor Heyerdahl
Now the melancholy of God protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changable taffata, for thy mind is a very opal. I would… — William Shakespeare
As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home. — Jack Kornfield
Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power… — Paulo Coelho
One ship drives east and another drives west With the selfsame winds that blow. Tis the set of the sails And not the gales Which… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound. — Herman Melville
The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to… — Marcel Proust
set sail on a voyage of your own titanic facts — Mary Pope Osborne
You know, when one's in love,' I said, 'and things go all wrong, one's terribly unhappy and one thinks one won't ever get over it.… — W. Somerset Maugham
…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt. — Jeanette Winterson
The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the… — Carlos Fuentes
It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are… — Gustave Flaubert
I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal… — Gustave Flaubert
Voyages are accomplished inwardly. — Henry Miller
...that one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second; and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on, for ever… — Herman Melville
If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half fancy being committed… — Herman Melville
She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like a lighthouse marking… — Virginia Woolf
Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds,… — David Mitchell
A message came from my youth of vanished days, saying, 'I wait for you among the quivering of unborn May, where smiles ripen for tears… — Rabindranath Tagore
Ramil met Tashi's eyes with a mischievous look. "Now Wife we have a long voyage ahead of us with no interruptions, no affairs of state… — Julia Golding

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