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Quotes About Journey

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. Henceforth, I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing.
~ Walt Whitman
Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.
~ Walt Whitman
The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted, Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.
~ Walt Whitman
But where is what I started for so long ago? And why is it yet unfound?
~ Walt Whitman
storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning, Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing, I tread day and night such roads.
~ Walt Whitman
A blade of grass is the journeywork of the stars
~ Walt Whitman
These are the days that must happen to you
~ Walt Whitman
Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared go. And we will risk the ship, ourselves, and all.
~ Walt Whitman
I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots
~ Walt Whitman
To know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls. -from Song of the Open Road
~ Walt Whitman
If you want me again, look for me under your boot-soles
~ Walt Whitman
Se è tardi a trovarmi, insisti, se non ci sono in un posto, cerca in un altro, perché io son fermo da qualche parte ad aspettare te.
~ Walt Whitman
Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.
~ Walt Whitman
I have hardly gone and hardly wish'd to go any farther.
~ Walt Whitman
Have you surpassed the rest? Are you the president? It doesn't matter. They will more than arrive there, every one, and still pass on.
~ Walt Whitman
I have no chair, no church, no philosophy, I lead no man to a dinner-table, library, exchange, But each man and each woman of you I lead upon a knoll, My left hand hooking you round the waist, My right hand pointing to landscapes of continents and the public road. Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.
~ Walt Whitman
Soy una infinidad de cosas ya cumplidas y una inmensidad de cosas por cumplir.
~ Walt Whitman
Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.
~ Walt Whitman
Speed on my book! spread your white sails my little bark athwart the       imperious waves
~ Walt Whitman
Aquel que camina una sola legua sin amor, camina amortajado hacia su propio funeral.
~ Walt Whitman
not I, not anyone else can travel that road for you, you must travel for yourself.
~ Walt Whitman
Allons! the road is before us! Camerado, I give you my hand! I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself? will you come travel with me? Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?
~ Walt Whitman
Lo, the unbounded sea,   On its breast a ship starting, spreading all sails, carrying even       her moonsails.   The pennant is flying aloft as she speeds she speeds so stately—       below emulous waves press forward,   They surround the ship with shining curving motions and foam.         I
~ Walt Whitman
A great poem is no finish to a man or woman but rather a beginning.
~ Walt Whitman