In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
Carson McCullersTag: wisdom life peace silence loneliness sorrow expression thought brooding enlightenment faces face restlessness wandering loner wise-man pensive
It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow. What whiteness boasts that sun that comes into this wood! One would say milk-colored maidens are dancing on the petals of orchids. How coldly burns our sun! One would say its rays of light are shards of snow, one imagines the sun lives upon a snow crested peak on this day. One would say she is a woman who wears a gown of winter frost that blinds the eyes. Helplessness has weakened me. Wandering has wearied my legs.
Roman PayneTag: poetry frost winter play theatre forest snow december coldness roman cold freezing wandering january payne roman-payne february maidens anotnius-and-calypia sylvan
We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301).
Jack KerouacTag: travel wandering travel-writing
From the very beginning
perplexing and wandering
from one ocean to another
an everlasting wander
Tag: illusion ocean beginning wandering perplexing silentaria what-s-real everlasting-wander rixa-white
In coming to Alaska, McCandless yearned to wander uncharted country, to find a blank spot on the map. In 1992, however, there were no more blank spots on the map—-not in Alaska, not anywhere. But Chris, with his idiosyncratic logic, came up with an elegant solution to this dilemma: He simply got rid of the map. In his own mind, if nowhere else, the terra would thereby remain incognita.
Jon KrakauerTag: wandering terra-incognita
Midway along the journey of our life
I woke to find myself in a dark wood,
for I had wandered off from the straight path.
How hard it is to tell what it was like,
this wood of wilderness, savage and stubborn
(the thought of it brings back all my old fears),
a bitter place! Death could scarce be bitterer.
But if I would show the good that came of it
I must talk about things other than the good.
Tag: wandering dante-alighieri astray
I’ve just been wandering the streets at night. If I came by a German soldier out alone, I would follow him, shove the pistol to the back of his head, and shoot. Once, I even did two at the same time, but they were really drunk.”
Poul-Erik aka ‘Willy’
The Informer by Steen Langstrup
Tag: noir wandering ww2 scandinavian really-drunk
[A]dventures befall the unadventurous as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold. Adventures are a logical and reliable result - and have been since at least the time of Odysseus - of the fatal act of leaving one's home, or trying to return to it again. All adventures happen in that damned and magical space, wherever it may be found or chanced upon, which least resembles one's home. As soon as you have crossed your doorstep or the county line, into that place where the structures, laws, and conventions of your upbringing no longer apply, where the support and approval (but also the disapproval and repression) of your family and neighbors are not to be had: then you have entered into adventure, a place of sorrow, marvels, and regret.
Michael ChabonTag: life freedom adventure travel repression wandering
Around her the trees and wild flowers, with that oddly courteous air of natural things suddenly interrupted in their pressing occupations of growing and dying, turned toward her with attention, as though, dull and imperceptive as she was, it was still necessary for them to be gentle to a creation so unfortunate as not to be rooted in the ground, forced to go from one place to another, heart-breakingly mobile.
Shirley JacksonA million miles from nowhere, is better than going nowhere, a million times.
Anthony LiccioneTag: distance void aimless wandering nowhere million miles no-direction going-in-circles
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