Always rather embarrassing to wonder what one gets out of travel to make up for its privations, except that it requires so much more imagination to stay at home.
— William Empson, letter to John Hayward, 7 March 1933
Parva domus sed amica bonis: procul este profani
Always rather embarrassing to wonder what one gets out of travel to make up for its privations, except that it requires so much more imagination to stay at home.
— William Empson, letter to John Hayward, 7 March 1933
