It is not without value for a bard ...

It is not without value for a bard to travel-just one week forward the road will enrich your store of ideas and images for at least half a year. Always beneath the open sky, a witness to the spectacular rise of the day-star to evening scenes made brilliant by its last rays, to the silent majesty of nights strewn with stars or illumined by means of the full moon, [the poet] breathes in a greater standing of reverence for the Incomprehensible (51 )