Not all those who wander are lost. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien,
The Fellowship of the Ring
Travel has always been for me an inner journey of awakening, a new way
of seeing, a nurturing of the poetic instinct.
 |
| View of the Arc de Triomphe, Paris, 1946 Ed Clark—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images |
In Arabic literature of past ages, travel was considered one of the
four great subjects worthy of the poet: love, song and blood, being the other
three. These four contain the basic desires of the human heart, worthy of being
elevated to a necessity for any human being who is truly alive.
