“I must. I must traverse illimitableness. I have already stayed here too long.”
“Stay a little longer....”
“I cannot. I may not.”
“Who compels you, O powerful horse, quick as lightning?...”
“Power.”
“What is power?”
“Who is God? Oh, tell me more! Tell me more! Don’t go away yet! I want to ask you so much, to hear so much. I am so stupid. I have longed so for you. Now you have come, and now you want to go away again.”
“Do not ask me for wisdom; I have none. Ask the Sphinx for wisdom; ask me for flight.”
“Oh, stay a little longer! Don’t flap so with your flaming wings! Who is the Sphinx? O Chimera, do not give me wisdom, but flight!”