Quotes About Exploration

The ideal adventurer needs... the quality of not being content to mind his own affairs...

A man, I felt, who could stay indoors cataloguing vases while his fiancée wandered in the moonlight with explorers deserved all that was coming to him.

One of the many things Mike could never understand in Psmith was his fondness for getting into atmospheres that were not his own. He would go out of his way to do this. Mike, like most boys of his age, was never really happy and at his ease except in the presence of those of his own years and class. Psmith, on the contrary, seemed to be bored by them, and infinitely preferred talking to somebody who lived in quite another world.

I move in the university of the waves.

I walked around as you do, investigating the endless star, and in my net, during the night, I woke up naked, the only thing caught, a fish trapped inside the wind.

Fue adondo a mi me perdieron quw logre por fin encontrarme? Was it where they lost me that I finally found myself?

Pale blind diver, luckless slinger, lost discoverer, in you everything sank!

Through the mountains you go as a breeze comes

Dónde van las cosas del sueño? Se van al sueño de otros?

De tus caderas a tus pies quiero hacer un largo viaje.

En ese territorio, de tus pies a tu frente, andando, andando, andando, me pasaré la vida.

Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world, on the blue shore of silence or where the storm has passed, rampaging like a train...

Para mí los libros fueron como la misma selva en que me perdía, en que continuaba perdiéndome.

I shall speak, not of self, but of geography.

People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.

To find is the thing.

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.

I am always doing things I can't do. That is how I get to do them.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it

Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.

I do not search; I find.