I've collected some more inspiring quotes on travel, by the greats of poetry, philosophy and literature here Which are your favorites? And feel free to share your contributions!
"The greatest poetry…" Neil DeGrasse Tyson
"The greatest poetry…" Neil DeGrasse Tyson
"Of course any universe created in a big explosion is going to be cruel and violent, thanks for understanding" (xpost poetry)
"A dragonfly flitted in front of me.." A short line of poetry I saw in Hiroshima describing what a man was doing before the Atomic Bomb was dropped
Thou shalt not use poetry, art or music to get into girls pants… …use it to get into their heads. – Scroobius Pip
I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. -John Adams
The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.
"When I say ‘God’ it is poetry and not theology" – John Haynes Holmes
“When I say 'God' it is poetry and not theology. Nothing that any theologian has written about God has helped me much, but everything the poets have written about flowers and birds and skies and seas and saviors of the race, and God – whoever He may be – has at one time or another reached my soul!…The theologians gather dust upon the shelves of my library but the poets are stained with my fingers and blotted by my tears.” – John Haynes Holmes
‘If we believe that we, as Americans, are bound together by a common concern for each other, then an urgent national priority is upon us. We must begin to end the disgrace of this other America…’
'…And this is one of the great tasks of leadership for us, as individuals and citizens this year. But even if we act to erase material poverty, there is another greater task, it is to confront the poverty of satisfaction—purpose and dignity—that afflicts us all. Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800 billion dollars a year, but that Gross National Product—if we judge the United States of America by that—that Gross National Product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special lks for our doors and the jails for the people who break them. It counts the destruction of the redwood and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and counts nuclear warheads and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs that glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children. Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans.”
-Robert F. Kennedy, born 11/20/25, murdered 6/8/68.
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