| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche: soul should be ripped up?
MUST I not wear stilts, that they may OVERLOOK my long legs--all those
enviers and injurers around me?
Those dingy, fire-warmed, used-up, green-tinted, ill-natured souls--how
COULD their envy endure my happiness!
Thus do I show them only the ice and winter of my peaks--and NOT that my
mountain windeth all the solar girdles around it!
They hear only the whistling of my winter-storms: and know NOT that I also
travel over warm seas, like longing, heavy, hot south-winds.
They commiserate also my accidents and chances:--but MY word saith:
"Suffer the chance to come unto me: innocent is it as a little child!"
Thus Spake Zarathustra |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Georgics by Virgil: How many sand-grains are by Zephyr tossed
On Libya's plain, or wot, when Eurus falls
With fury on the ships, how many waves
Come rolling shoreward from the Ionian sea.
Not that all soils can all things bear alike.
Willows by water-courses have their birth,
Alders in miry fens; on rocky heights
The barren mountain-ashes; on the shore
Myrtles throng gayest; Bacchus, lastly, loves
The bare hillside, and yews the north wind's chill.
Mark too the earth by outland tillers tamed,
Georgics |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare: His tenderer cheek receives her soft hand's print,
As apt as new-fall'n snow takes any dint.
O! what a war of looks was then between them;
Her eyes petitioners to his eyes suing; 356
His eyes saw her eyes as they had not seen them;
Her eyes woo'd still, his eyes disdain'd the wooing:
And all this dumb play had his acts made plain
With tears, which, chorus-like, her eyes did rain.
Full gently now she takes him by the hand, 361
A lily prison'd in a gaol of snow,
Or ivory in an alabaster band;
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