Thursday, October 12, 2006

O, to be a Gardener!

Out of damp and gloomy days,
out of solitude,
out of loveless words directed at us,
conclusions grow up in us like fungus:
One morning they are there,
we know not how,
and they gaze upon us,
morose and grey.

Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener
but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.


- Friedrich Nietzsche

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Geez, what a depressing thought.

Maybe this shows my ignorance, but I didn't realize Nietzsche was a poet.

monica said...

I don't find it depressing really. Maybe that shows my cynicism?