An excerpt from "Dionysus Dithyrambus" by Nietzsche:

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An excerpt from "Dionysus Dithyrambus" by Nietzsche:

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I like this part:

Or like the eagle that, for a long time,
A long time gazes with a fixed stare into abysses,
Into its abysses ...
— Oh how they spiral downward,
Down, down under,
Into ever deeper depths! —
Then,
Suddenly,
Plummeting straight down
Wings pulled out
To pounce on lambs,
Right down, hot-hungry,
Lusting for lambs,
Hating all lamb-souls,
Grimly hating whatever looks
Virtuous, sheepish, curly-wooled,
Dull, with lambs’ milk-goodwill ...

Thus
Eagle-like, panther-like,
Are the poet’s longings,
Are your longings under a thousand masks,
You fool! You poet!...

You that have looked upon man
As god and as sheep —
Tearing to pieces the god in man
As well as the sheep in man,
And laughing while tearing —

This, this is your bliss,
A panther’s and eagle’s bliss,
A poet’s and fool’s bliss!” ...

In the fading light of dusk,
When just as the moon’s sickle
In between green and crimson-reds
Enviously creeps —
The day’s enemy,
With every stealthy step
At rose hammocks
Scything, till they sink,
Sink down pale in nightfall:

Thus I myself once sank,
Out of my truth-madness,
Out of my day-longings,
Weary of day, sick from the light —
Sank downward, eveningward, shadowward,
By one truth
Burnt and thirsty —
Do you still remember, hot heart, remember
How you thirsted then? —
That I be exiled
From all truth!
Only fool!
Only poet!...
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