speak, memory/: faust

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

 very interesting debate i just wanna throw my glückspfennig in:

in the very beginning of "faust", in the "zueignung", goethe sez:

  "ihr naht euch wieder, schwankende gestalten,/
   die früh sich einst dem trüben blick gezeigt."

 roughly that is: you come close again, rocking figures/
               which early, once, presented themselves to the twilight glance.

  well, in the first place this refers to the early beginnings of the whole 
  "faust" project. but it also - as erich trunz point out in his comment - is a 
  kind of poetological statement on creativity. goethe considered the poet 
  himself to be something like a harp that starts to sound when the wind [!] 
  caresses its strings ... creating has to do with passive receiving of 
  inspiration ... instead of making plans the poet should just listen to his 
  muses ... & to me, after having followed this p-list debate, this comes quite 
  close to the saying "speak, memory, speak tenderly ..."

kai