Mon bateau partira demain pour l'Amérique
Et je ne reviendrai jamais
Avec l'argent gagné dans les prairies
lyriques…

—Apollinaire

I turn round and round irresolute sometimes
for a quarter of an hour, until I decide, for
the thousandth time, that I will walk into the
Southwest or West. Eastward I go only by force;
but Westward I go free.

—Thoreau