| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde: sea, to me no less of a mother than the Earth. It seems to me that
we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little. I
discern great sanity in the Greek attitude. They never chattered
about sunsets, or discussed whether the shadows on the grass were
really mauve or not. But they saw that the sea was for the
swimmer, and the sand for the feet of the runner. They loved the
trees for the shadow that they cast, and the forest for its silence
at noon. The vineyard-dresser wreathed his hair with ivy that he
might keep off the rays of the sun as he stooped over the young
shoots, and for the artist and the athlete, the two types that
Greece gave us, they plaited with garlands the leaves of the bitter
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso: The bloody Pagan now was placed near:
But when his colors gold and white he spied,
And saw the other signs that forged were,
"See, see, this traitor false!" the captain cried,
"That like a Frenchman would in show appear,
Behold how near his mates and he are crept!"
This said, upon the villain forth he leapt;
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Deadly he wounded him, and that false knight
Nor strikes nor wards nor striveth to be gone;
But, as Medusa's head were in his sight,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare: As they did battery to the spheres intend;
Sometime diverted their poor balls are tied
To th' orbed earth; sometimes they do extend
Their view right on; anon their gazes lend
To every place at once, and nowhere fix'd,
The mind and sight distractedly commix'd.
Her hair, nor loose nor tied in formal plat,
Proclaim'd in her a careless hand of pride;
For some, untuck'd, descended her sheav'd hat,
Hanging her pale and pined cheek beside;
Some in her threaden fillet still did bide,
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