Prose Travel Work

Famous quotes containing the words prose, travel and/or work:

“Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

“So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man’s life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations everywhere, and it is vain to travel to find it new.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I did nothing but work. I made work my hobby. I was lucky that way.”
—Mary Roebling (1905–1994)