transport quotes

What are men to rocks and mountains? Oh! what hours of transport we shall spend! And when we do return, it shall not be like other travellers, without being able to give one accurate idea of anything.We will know where we have goneöwe will recollect what we have seen. Lakes, mountains, and rivers, shall not be jumbled together in our imaginations; nor, when we attempt to describe any particular scene, will we begin quarrelling about its relative situation.

-Austen,Jane
  Pride and Prejudice, ch.27.

Musicians wrestle everywhereö All dayöamong the crowded air I hear the silver strifeö Andöwakingölong before the mornö Such transport breaks upon the town I think it that 'New Life!'

-Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth
c.1860  Complete Poems, no.157 (first published1891).

   You define your own horror journey, according to your taste. My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom. Add discomfort, fatigue, strain in large amounts to get the purest-quality horror, but the kernel is boredom. I offer that as a universal test of travel; boredom, called byanyother name, iswhy you yearn for the first available transport out.But what bores whom?† The threshold of boredom must be like the threshold of pain, different in all of us.

-Gellhorn, Martha Ellis
  Travels with Myself and  Another.

There are two modes of transport in Los Angeles: car and ambulance.Visitors who wish to remain inconspicuous are advised to choose the latter.

-Lebowitz, Fran(ces Ann)
Social Studies,'Lesson One'.

Surprised by joyöimpatient as the wind I turned to share the transportöOh! with whom But thee, deep buried in the silent tomb, That spot which no vicissitude can find? 928

-Wordsworth,William
c.1812  'Surprised by joyöimpatient as the wind', l.1^4 (published1815).The poet's second daughter, Catherine, who died inJune1812, is the'thee'referred to in the poem.

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