“...travel must be an extravagance, a sacrifice to the rules of chance, of daily life to the extraordinary ; it must represent the most intimate and original form of our taste.” - Stefan Zweig

“What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?—It’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.” - Jack Kerouac

“It matters little how much is destroyed, if only the germ of the miraculous be preserved and nurtured. At Epidaurus you are confronted with and permeated by the intangible residue of the miraculous surge of the human spirit. It inundates you like the spray of a mighty wave which broke at last upon the farther shore” - Henry Miller

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." - John Keats