The second line of Walt Whitman’s short poem “The Untold Want” reads: “Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.” Olive Higgins Prouty entitles her 1941 novel Now Voyager, and Irving Rapper names his 1942 film, starring Bette Davis, Now Voyager. Both the novel and the film explicate the meaning of how one must change their life now as presented through the character of Charlotte Vale. After the 1940’s the concept enters into mainstream twenty and twenty-first century American enterprises and cultural activities, including American law, pop psychology, fiction and nonfiction books, poems, songs, art, and the nomenclature of other material culture artifacts.