Flames

Ja! Ich weiß, woher ich stamme!
Ungesättigt gleich der Flamme
glühe und verzehr' ich mich.
Licht wird alles, was ich fasse,
Kohle alles, was ich lasse:
Flamme bin ich sicherlich!

Nietzsche

I read this in my copy of my father's Penguin Book of German Verse. He had a good ear for poetry. The Hebel and the Claudias that i put in the thread also come from there. But i could never get into Hölderlin, even tho' my father was a big fan. Still time to try i suppose.

Actually the immediate cause of my linking this Nietzsche here was reading Kay Jamieson's wonderful memoir of manic-depression.

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