A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

George Moore

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Searching for something Seeking Travel

Author

George Moore

Source

The Brook Kerith

Statement Type

Paradox Irony

Language

English

Time

1916 1910s 20th century

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Writer

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Ireland Europe

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Citation

Moore, George. The Brook Kerith: A Syrian Story. The Macmillan Company, 1916, ch. 11.

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Once I had recognized the taste of the crumb of madeleine soaked in her decoction of lime flowers which my aunt used to give me... Immediately the old gray house upon the street, where her room was, rose up like the scenery of a theater.

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Proust, Marcel. Du côté de chez Swann [The Way by Swann's]. Paris: Grasset, 1913.

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Proust, Marcel. Swann's Way, edited and translated by Lydia Davis. Penguin Classics, 2004.

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Happy is he who, like Ulysses, has made a glorious voyage.

Joachim Du Bellay

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Source
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Medium
Poem
Language
French
Time
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Du Bellay, Joachim. "Heureux qui, comme Ulysse, a fait un beau voyage." Les Regrets. Paris: Fédéric Morel, 1558.

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Breathless, we flung us on the windy hill,
Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

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Experiencing nature

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Rupert Brooke
Source
The Hill
Medium
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Language
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Time
1916 1910s 20th century
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Brooke, Rupert. "The Hill." Collected Poems. John Lane, 1916, I. 1.

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Brooke, Rupert. "The Hill." The Poems of Rupert Brooke. Dover Publications, 2020, I. 1.

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There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. And, dying, it rises above its own agony to out-carol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain.

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Time
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