The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
An exciting and inspiring future awaits you beyond the noise in your mind, beyond the guilt, doubt, fear, shame, insecurity and heaviness of the past you carry around.
And all the charms of face or voice Which I in others see, Are but the recollected choice Of what I feel for thee.
I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.
If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?
The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it.
While your past can inform you and your future can inspire you, the moment of choice exists in the here and now.
That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individual is found expressed.
I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.
I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.