"This, however, all poets believe: that whoever pricks up his ears as he lies in the grass or on lonely slopes will find out something about those things that are between heaven and earth. And when they feel tender sentiments stirring, the poets always fancy that nature herself is in love with them; and that she is creeping to their ears to tell them secrets and amorous flatteries; and of this they brag and boast before all mortals.
"Alas, there are so many things between heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed.
"Alas, I cast my net into their seas and wanted to catch good fish; but I always pulled up the head of some old god. Thus the sea gave him who was hungry a stone. And they themselves may well have come from the sea. Certainly, pearls are found in them: they are that much more similar to hard shellfish. And instead of a soul I often found salted slime in them.
"But I have grown weary of this spirit; and I foresee that it will grow weary of itself. I have already seen the poets changed, with their glances turned back on themselves. I saw ascetics of the spirit approach; they grew out of the poets."
Thus spoke Zarathustra.
(Nietzsche)
......and in reply I told him of wonders remaining, yet to be found, never to be found, for each and every song that is written seems new, does it not, when we know that every note in every order HAS to have been sung or strummed upon some heroe's instrument, and yet they churn out song upon song upon song and I despair of ever stumbling upon that last hidden wonder.......
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