Now if you’re a human being, you probably realize that it’s possible for you to degenerate into a beast; people who don’t acknowledge this have actually degenerated in a different way, have lost a certain amount of self insight. And you can regress into being an ape, if that’s what you really want to do.
“Love that is born of Time and comes and goes!
Love that doth hold all noble hearts in fief!
As red leaves follow where the wind hath flown,
So all men follow Love when Love is dead.
O Fate of Wind! O Wind that cannot spare,
But drivest out the Maid, and pourest lees
Of all thy crimson on the wold again,”
Ezra Pound | “Canzon: The Yearly Slain”