It is true that there are men who, on the approach of severe pain, hear the very opposite call of command, and never appear more proud, more martial, or more happy than when the storm is brewing; indeed, pain itself provides them with their supreme...
Because deep down I glorified and gave the earth my trust, And never spread my secret wings to flee, But rooted deep in silence my soul unstintingly, Till the fresh waters once again came surging for my thirst, A spring of life, a dancing spring, my spring of ecstasy; Because...
I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power, that the path before me was closed, that provisions were exhausted, and the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity, but I find that thy will knows no end in me, and...
