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• There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. There is a delight in the hardy life of the open... Apart from this, yet mingled with it, is the strong attraction of the silent places, of the large tropic moons, and the splendor of the new stars; where the wanderer sees the awful glory of sunrise and sunset in the wide waste spaces of the earth, unworn of man, and changed only by the slow change of the ages through time everlasting.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Strong, Stars, Sunset

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• I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.

  Maureen Forrester

  Years, Childhood, Wonderful

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• He only can create the greatest imaginable beauty who has endured all imaginable pangs, for only when we have seen and foreseen what we dread shall we be rewarded by that dazzling unforeseen wing-footed wanderer.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Wings, Dread

  William Butler Yeats (1998). “Mythologies”, p.332, Simon and Schuster

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• Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.

  Ben Jonson

  Home, Stills, Bosoms

  1616 The Forest,'To the World'.

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• O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.

  Mortimer Collins

  Wise, Fate, Past

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• By the grey woods, by the swamp, where the toad and newt encamp, by the dismal tarns and pools, where dwell the Gouls. By each spot the most unholy, by each nook most melancholy, there the traveller meets, aghast, sheeted memories of the Past. Shrouded forms that start and sigh, as they pass the wanderer by. White-robed forms of friends long given; In agony, to the Earth - and Heaven.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Memories, Past, Agony

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “The best known works of Edgar Allan Poe: poems, tales, essays, criticisms”

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• Love, unconquerable, Waster of rich men, keeper Of warm lights and all-night vigil In the soft face of a girl: Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor! Even the pure immortals cannot escape you, And mortal man, in his one day's dusk, Trembles before your glory.

  Sophocles

  Love, Girl, Night

  Sophocles (1977). “The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version”, Harcourt

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• Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  World, Pilgrim

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “The Sorrows of Young Werther”, p.78, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers in our casual deeds . . . Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose tomorrow the ground won today- Ah, do not we, Wanderer, await it too?

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Light, Heaven

  1853 Poems: A New Edition,'The Scholar-Gipsy', l.171-4.

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• Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language - how to convey, to say nothing of converge - but an unhousedness of place.

  Joy Williams

  Today, Language

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• Wanderer: You don't really feel that way about me you know. It's this body... she's pretty isn't she? Ian: She is. Melanie is a very pretty girl. Even beautiful. But pretty as she is, she is a stranger to me. She's not the one I... care about. Wanderer: It's this body. Ian: That's not true at all. It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what they say. It's not how you look like in that body, it's what you do with it. You are beautiful.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Beautiful, Girl, Expression

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• America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.

  Theodore White

  Europe, America, Hopeful

  Theodore H. White (1961). “THE MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT 1960”

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• You can call me an angry ghost when I'm gone, or laugh into my disposition. But my mom will still see me as her wide-eyed wanderer out behind the garage inventing ways to fend off dog attacks that will probably never happen.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Mom, Dog, Laughing

  Buddy Wakefield (2011). “Gentleman Practice”, p.11, SCB Distributors

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• I am that merry wanderer of the night.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Dead Poets Society, Midsummer

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.129

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• ...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool.

  Mark Twain

  Fashion, Silly, Names

  Mark Twain, Howard G. Baetzhold, Joseph B. Mccullough (1996). “The Bible According to Mark Twain”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• And, just for good measure, here are a handful of runners up:
  For now the seventh summer carries you,
  A wanderer, across the lands and waters.

  Virgil

  Summer, Land, Water

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• Traditional photojournalists arrive with an idea of what they are going to produce or what the editor wants. I approach a subject very much as a street photographer and a wanderer, without preconceptions. I try to leave it extremely intuitive and exploratory.

  Alex Webb

  Editors, Ideas, Trying

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• The sea-road is good for wanderers and landless men. There is quenching of thirst on the grey paths of the winds, and the flying clouds to still the sting of lost dreams.

  Robert E. Howard

  Dream, Men, Clouds

  "The Road of Azrael". Book by Robert E. Howard, 1976.

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• But there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be.

  Lord Byron

  Anchors, Eternity, Bark

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.106, Cambridge University Press

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• My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Father, Adventure, Twenties

  "The Coming Race" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Ch. 1, 1870.

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• Genius in the poet, like the nomad of Arabia, ever a wanderer, still ever makes a home where the well or the palm-tree invites it to pitch the tent. Perpetually passing out of himself and his own positive circumstantial condition of being into other hearts and into other conditions, the poet obtains his knowledge of human life by transporting his own life into the lives of others.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Heart, Home, Tree

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• A PILGRIM IS A WANDERER WITH A PURPOSE. A pilgrimage can be to a place - that's the best known kind - but it can also be for a thing. Mine is for peace, and that is why I am a Peace Pilgrim.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Purpose, Kind, Pilgrim

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.25, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• I'm not a wanderer, which is funny because I'm on tour half the time. I'm a home, hearth and family kind of person.

  Joanna Newsom

  Home, Half, Kind

  Interview with Brian Howe, pitchfork.com. November 20, 2006.

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• O Innocence, with laughing eyes! Thou art a cherub from the skies, A wanderer from heaven.

  Harvey Rice

  Art, Eye, Sky

  Harvey Rice (1858). “Mount Vernon: And Other Poems”, p.152

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• Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers of our casual creeds, Who never deeply felt, nor clearly will'd, Whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, Whose vague resolves never have been fulfill'd; For whom each year we see Breeds new beginnings, disappointments new; Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose to-morrow the ground won to-day Ah! do not we, wanderer! await it too?

  Matthew Arnold

  Disappointment, New Beginnings, Light

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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