José Martí

Todo es música y razón
   Todo es hermoso y constante
Y todo, como el diamante,
   Antes que luz es carbón.

All is music and reason
   All is constant and beauty
And all, like the diamond
   Before light is coal.

José Martí

Traveling by Wendell Berry

Traveling 

Even in a country you know by heart
its hard to go the same way twice.
The life of the going changes.
The chances change and make a new way.
Any tree or stone or bird
can be the bud of a new direction. The
natural connection is to make intent
of accident. To get back by dark
Is the art of going.

—Wendell Berry