Anne Waldman Quotes

I travel as much as I can and meet people.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Some of the songs are inspired by personal things that have happened. Others have been inspired by other people's stories, you know, like someone that witnesses something and so I tell the story through my own eyes. And some songs are just about how I feel about the world and others about the places that we have travelled to.

I loved going on the road... I think that's something everybody ought to experience one day - not necessarily as an artist, but just to get out and see the country.

People always travel no matter what.

You tend to take your journey for granted after a while, but when I pause and look back, I feel blessed that I had so many opportunities.

I've been travelling all my life.

People think of travel, of movement, as a kind of reprieve from life. But they're wrong. Movement isn't a reprieve. There is no reprieve. Movement is our permanent state.

I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because a story is a tight rope between two worlds.

I travel, always arriving in the same place.

...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way?

Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy.

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.

When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather

To me good storytelling is about journeys. It's about people's journeys, people's discoveries and how they deal with those discoveries; circumstances that put people in different situations.

We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

The people I met and the places I been Are all what make me the man I so proudly am.

...A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from - toward; it is the history of every one of us. It is a great art to saunter.

To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength.

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

My manager said the next best inspiration to heartbreak is travel, and it's true.

Brother, I am too old to go again to my travels.

It may be said that the vices await us in the journey of life like hosts with whom we must successively lodge; and I doubt whether experience would make us avoid them if we were to travel the same road a second time.

The true voyagers are those who go for the sake of traveling . . . and without quite knowing why, they say, 'Let us depart!'.

Traveling is a constant arriving, while arrival that precludes further traveling is most easily attained by going to sleep or dying.