"Allons! whoever you are ...."

Allons! whoever you are come travel with me!

Traveling with me you find what never tires.

The earth never tires,

The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first, Nature is rude and incomprehensible at first,

Be not discouraged, keep on, there are divine things well envelop’d,

I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.

Allons! we must not stop here,

However sweet these laid-up stores, however convenient this dwelling we cannot remain here,

However shelter’d this port and however calm these waters we must not anchor here,

However welcome the hospitality that surrounds us we are permitted to receive it but a little while.

Walt Whitman

"Will you give me ...."

Will you give me yourself?  will you come travel with me?

Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?

Walt Whitman

"I was lost in myself ...."

I was lost in myself, but how can you understand?  You may have heard the notes of people, but not those of earth.  You may have heard the notes of earth, but not those of heaven.

 Zhuangzi

"One cannot ...."

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Virginia Woolf

"There is no love ...."

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

George Bernard Shaw