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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA: NOTES, by FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: They all muddy the water that it may seem deep Last Line: Does it tire of its lace-fan of silver and silk | |||
They all muddle their water that it may seem deep. And fain would they thereby prove themselves reconcilers: but mediaries and mixers are they unto me, and half-and-half, and impure!- Ah, I cast indeed my net into their sea, and meant to catch good fish; but always did I draw up the head of some ancient God. Thus did the sea give a stone to the hungry one. And they themselves may well originate from the sea. Certainly, one findeth pearls in them: thereby they are the more like hard molluscs. And instead of a soul, I have often found in them salt slime. They have learned from the sea also its vanity: is not the sea the peacock of peacocks? Even before the ugliest of all buffaloes doth it spread out its tail; never doth it tire of its lace-fan of silver and silk | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest... |
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