31/07/2012

I felt a vigour in my sense / That was all spirit.

[...]
And while my God did all his glories show,
I felt a vigour in my sense
That was all spirit. I within did flow
With seas of life, like wine;
I nothing in the world did know
But 'twas divine.
[...]

Thomas Traherne. Wonder.


I desire for myself and for all who live, may live, without being tormented by a puriticanical conscience, an ever-greater spiritualization and multiplication of the sensees; indeed, we should be grateful to the senses for their subtlety, plenitude, and power and offer them in return the best we have in the way of spirit.

Nietzsche. The Will to Power §820. Walter Kaufmann & R.J. Hollingdale (trad). Vintage Books (1968).

Ver ainda todo o poema do mesmo Thomas Traherne A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation of the Mercies of God.

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