Good Advice You’ve a head and a heart? Reveal only one of them, I say; If you reveal both at once, doubly they’ll damn you, for both. - Friedrich Hölderlin

close and difficult to realize is the god, but where danger abounds, grows what saves.

Hield mij aan't leven der mensen dit hart maar niet meer gebonden,
dat van liefde niet aflaat, hoe graag zou ik mét u hier wonen!

Delay thou not to break the chosen vessel,
for else it may some baser usage serve,
What should be God’s, becoming only man’s.
‘Tis better they should die, these fortunates,
Before (to trifles, shames and weaknesses a prey)
They perish ignominiously. ‘Tis better, far,
For the free man to choose his time for death,
A loving sacrifice to the high gods