"Wayfarer, keep
looking back." a Swahili saying
"It is art that
makes life, makes interest, makes importance
and I know of no
substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process."
Henry James
"Human
speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears
to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"I have wandered
all my life, and I have also travelled; the difference between the two
being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment."
Hilaire Belloc, French-born English essayist and writer of travelogues
(1850-1953)