How we cite our quotes: (Line)
Quote #4
To see nothing anywhere but what you may reach it and pass it,
To conceive no time, however distant, but what you may reach it and pass it,
To look up or down no road but it stretches and waits for you—however long, but it stretches and waits for you; (173-175)
Everything seems possible out here on the open road. You can go anywhere, no matter the distance or time it takes to get there. The road is there, waiting to make all your dreams of escape come true. What are you waiting for?
Quote #5
Allons! be not detain'd!
Let the paper remain on the desk unwritten, and the book on the shelf unopen'd!
Let the tools remain in the workshop! let the money remain unearn'd!
Let the school stand! mind not the cry of the teacher!
Let the preacher preach in his pulpit! let the lawyer plead in the court, and the judge expound the law. (222-226)
Paperwork? Reading? Work? School? The message here is: who needs 'em? The open road is calling, Shmoopers, so drop your responsibilities where they are and head on out to experience that highway of life. Ultimate freedom awaits.