Quotes About Exploration

The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.

I stepped from Plank to Plank So slow and cautiously The Stars about my Head I felt, About my Feet the Sea. I knew not but the next Would be my final inch — This gave me that precarious Gait Some call Experience.

I started early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me

Whose fingers string the stalactite- Who counts the Wampum of the night

There is nothing more fugal than a book to take you to different lands

Non esiste un vascello veloce come un libro per portarci in terre lontane.

Down Time's quaint stream Without an oar, We are enforced to sail, Our Port—a secret— Our Perchance—a gale. What Skipper would Incur the risk, What Buccaneer would ride, Without a surety from the wind Or schedule of the tide?

Split the Lark—and you'll find the Music, Bulb after Bulb, in Silver rolled.

A little road not made of man, Enabled of the eye, Accessible to thill of bee, Or cart of butterfly. If town it have, beyond itself, 'T is that I cannot say; I only sigh,—no vehicle Bears me along that way.

I dwell in Possibility – A fairer House than Prose – More numerous of Windows – Superior – for Doors –

No hay mejor fragata que un libro para llevarnos a tierras lejanas.

None cannot find who seeketh, on this terrestrial ball...

Dwell in possibility

Pour voyager loin, il n'y a pas de meilleur navire qu'un livre.

Split the lark and you'll find the music

As if the chart were given.

I dwell in Possibility—

The shore is safer, Abiah, but I love to buffet the sea - I can count the bitter wrecks here in these pleasant waters, and hear the murmuring winds, but oh, I love the danger!

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.

I am out with lanterns looking for myself

And dip your fingers in the frost:

There is no frigate like a book.