| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Blue Flower by Henry van Dyke: they are all true.
But how to find a name for such a book,--a name that will tell
enough to show the thought and yet not too much to leave it free?
I have borrowed a symbol from the old
German poet and philosopher, Novalis, to stand instead of a
name. The Blue Flower which he used in his romance of
Heinrich von Ofterdingen to symbolise Poetry, the object of
his young hero's quest, I have used here to signify happiness,
the satisfaction of the heart.
Reader, will you take the book and see if it belongs to
you? Whether it does or not, my wish is that the Blue Flower
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rivers to the Sea by Sara Teasdale: I go not bitterly, not dumb with pain,
RIVERS TO THE SEA
Not broken by the ache of love--I go
As one grown tired lies down and hopes to sleep.
Yet they shall say: "It was for Cercolas;
She died because she could not bear her love."
They shall remember how we used to walk
Here on the cliff beneath the oleanders
In the long limpid twilight of the spring,
Looking toward Lemnos, where the amber sky
Was pierced with the faint arrow of a star.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "Follow me up this, very quietly," he said to those behind
him. "Up to the third landing."
They did as he bid them. At the third landing Barney
felt for the latch he knew was there--he was on familiar
ground now. Finding it he pushed open the door it held in
place, and through a tiny crack surveyed the room beyond.
It was vacant. The American threw the door wide and
stepped within. Directly behind him was Butzow, his eyes
wide in wonderment. After him filed the troopers until
seventeen of them stood behind their lieutenant and the
"king."
The Mad King |
