Visited XV

One must stop permitting oneself to be eaten 
when one tastes best: this is understood by
those who want to be loved long.
Nietzsche




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Visited XIV

Thus the body goes through history, evolving and battling.
And the spirit- what is it to the body? The herald, companion
and echo of its battles and victories.
Nietzsche




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Visited XIII

Elpis   Hope


Yet not for ever closed is the dread gate
Of such a barrier, such a brazen wall,
Though it may stand rock-fast like ancient fate!
There is a being, and you know her well:
Lightsome, unbridled, who on delicate
Wings lifts us high through clouds, fog, rain and all
That weighs us down: she flies both wide and far-
One wing-beat bears us where vast ages are!
Goethe




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Visited XII

Ananke   Necessity


And then all's as it was: the stars' decree,
Necessity and law; our will's no more
Than willing what we had and have to be;
That will outwills us; wishes, wants, implore
It vainly, and we lose most cruelly
What we love most; our heart is dumb before
The strict command. Thus, seeming free, we know
Ourselves trapped faster than long years ago.
Goethe




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Visited XI

Eros   Love


And sure enough, it comes! - That god who soared
Up from the primal chaos, swoops down now
On airy wings and hovering like a bird
Through the spring day about our breast and brow,
Fluttering and feigning, earthward, heavenward
And back again: joy, dread, sweet anguish, how
They mingle! - Many a heart strays far and wide:
The noblest knows one love and none beside.
Goethe




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Visited X

Tyche   Chance


And yet a pleasing, changeful element
Moves with us, round us, mitigates that stern
Restriction; you are not alone, you are meant
To do as others do, from them to learn.
Life is a toy, and toying it is spent;
It takes a lucky or unlucky turn.
The quiet years have passed now, and time came
Full course; the lamp awaits the enkindling flame.
Goethe




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Visited IX

Primal Words. Orphic


Daimon   Destiny


As on the day that gave you to the world,
As then the planets stood to greet the sun,
Even so since then your life has all unfurled
By that same law at that same hour begun.
You are, as seers and sibyls have foretold,
Yourself, and from yourself you cannot run;
For neither time nor any power can shatter
The evolving life-form of imprinted matter.
Goethe




Photographs by Jeffrey Harris