Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.
Heinrich HeinePerhaps already I am dead, And these perhaps are phantoms vain; - These motley phantasies that pass At night through my disordered brain. Perhaps with ancient heathen shapes, Old faded gods, this brain is full; Who, for their most unholy rites, Have chosen a dead poet's skull.
Heinrich Heine