Food, cooked or raw, cannot escape from symbolism. It is, & also simultaneously represents that which it is. All food is soul food. But in the airless vault of our civilization, …nearly every experience is mediated, reality strained through the deadening mesh of consensus-perception, we lose touch with food as nourishment; we begin to…
See there! Surprised and pale does it stand – before the rosy dawn! For already she comes, the glowing one, — her love to the earth comes! Innocence, and creative desire, is all solar love! See there, how she comes impatiently over the sea! Do you not feel the thirst…
Oh, you nostalgic liars,you avaricious ones! You, without innocence in your desire:and how you discredit desiring on that account! Truly, not as creators, as birth-parents,or as revelers do you love the earth! WHERE IS INNOCENCE?Where there is will to childbearing. And he whoseeks to create beyond himself, has for me the purest will. WHERE…
TOO far did I fly into the future: a horror seized upon me. And when I looked around me. Behold, there time was my sole contemporary! Then did I fly backwards, homewards – and always faster. Thus did I come to you: you present-day men, and into the land of culture. For the first…
Like a white ox I’d like to see him, which, snorting and lowing, walks before the plough-share: and his lowing should also laud all that is earthly! Dark is still his countenance; the shadow of his hand dances upon it. Overshadowed is still the sense of his eye. ~*~ His deed itself…
And you tell me, friends, that there ought be no controversy about taste and tasting? But all life is a matter of dispute about taste and tasting! Taste: that is to weigh at the same time, and scales and a one-who-weighs; and all the worse for every living thing that would attempt…
Listen carefully now, you enlightened ones! Weigh seriously, whether I have discerned the heart of life itself, the very roots of its heart! Wherever I found a living thing, there found I Will-to-Power; and even in the will of the servant I found the will to be master. The weaker is to serve the…
“WILL to Truth” you call it, you learned ones, which compels you to become so focused? ~*~ Will for the thinkableness of all being: thus would I characterize your will! All being you want to make thinkable: because you secretly doubt with good reason whether being is already thinkable… But it shall accommodate and…
How did I ever bear it?How did I survive and overcome such wounds?How did my soul rise again out of those killing fields? Yes, something invulnerable, unburiable is within me,something that would shatter rocks into pieces:it is called my Will. Silently does it proceed,unchanged throughout the years.Its course proceeds upon my feet,my old Will;…
Night. In darkness things gain definition, a better focus. I dreamed in the early morning hours. The detail has already escaped my recall. The gist, the weight of the presences, a female voice spoke to me saying that I must attend to female perspectives in my life. Why that point? I am a guy,…
