"There is something at work in my soul
which I do not understand.
I am practically industrious — painstaking,
a workman to execute with perseverance and labour
—
but besides this there is a love for the marvellous,
a belief in the marvellous,
intertwined in all my projects,
which hurries me out of the common pathways
of men,
even to the wild sea and unvisited regions
I am about to explore."
-Robert Walton
