Reading Goethe
I love reading poetry and it’s been a while since I’ve found something to engage my interest on that front. A website I read sometimes quotes the poetry of Goethe on occasion and, although I know him more as a philosopher than as a poet, I was inspired to buy a book of his poetic works today.
Goethe’s poetry was essentially autobiographical. One of his poems, “The Diary,” was suppressed for more than a century for its eroticism. Well, of course, the thing we want to read first and most is that which has the excitement of the forbidden! So I started there. You should read it for yourself, but here are the final lines:
This life’s a crazy journey, and our heart
May stumble, but two mighty powers, we’ll find,
Can move the world and help us as we go:
To Duty much, to Love far more we owe.
How lovely!
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My name is Angela Eloise and I am a freelance writer. I recently moved to Seattle because I wanted a better home base to support my creative goals. And my shaman told me to. Cloud of Chaos was born from my desire to dance with the absurdity of life, to create a space where I could write and share all of the gorgeous, fun, snarky deliciousness I find spinning around me every day. What does a spinning cloud of chaos have to do with writing? Everything, as it turns out.
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