Wer fliegen kann, braucht keine Brücken | Prosagedicht von Phil Humor | Vertont von Suno
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[{'start': '1.280', 'end': '5.880', 'text': "If you can fly, you don't need bridges.\nPractice mental flight,"}, {'start': '5.880', 'end': '12.680', 'text': 'but after a crash landing\nyou reach for crutches again.'}, {'start': '12.680', 'end': '17.440', 'text': 'People want to adorn themselves with successes,\npearls of wisdom.'}, {'start': '17.440', 'end': '24.440', 'text': 'Others reach for the stars\nand at least catch starfish.'}, {'start': '24.440', 'end': '32.880', 'text': 'You, on the other hand, collect pearl-free oysters.\nPresumably the pearls are worried'}, {'start': '32.880', 'end': '38.560', 'text': 'that someone is going to\nthrow them before swine.  There is'}, {'start': '38.560', 'end': '42.440', 'text': "n't even a flying carpet\nready to take off."}, {'start': '42.440', 'end': '46.000', 'text': 'You have to look at the whole thing from above,'}, {'start': '46.000', 'end': '49.840', 'text': 'recognize patterns.\nBut wisdom is in the race;'}, {'start': '49.840', 'end': '53.840', 'text': 'she runs away.\nShe smells the wisdom hunter.'}, {'start': '53.840', 'end': '60.640', 'text': "She's not such easy prey.\nYou can't just pick them."}, {'start': '60.640', 'end': '65.200', 'text': 'The realization grows within you\nthat you yourself must mutate into an oyster'}, {'start': '65.200', 'end': '70.040', 'text': 'in order to get such a damn pearl.\nFocus on what bothers you.'}, {'start': '70.040', 'end': '73.560', 'text': 'The oyster does it that way too.\nThat is their method.'}, {'start': '73.560', 'end': '75.920', 'text': "But she doesn't do it of her own free will."}, {'start': '75.920', 'end': '82.440', 'text': 'Knowledge born out of necessity.\nYou probably need that as an ingredient.'}, {'start': '83.720', 'end': '90.400', 'text': 'An annoyance, something unpleasant.\nThe world actually has plenty of that.'}, {'start': '90.400', 'end': '94.040', 'text': "Let's pick something.\nThey even queue up, the problems,"}, {'start': '94.040', 'end': '100.480', 'text': 'happy that they can help.\nPeople make something of them.'}, {'start': '100.480', 'end': '106.320', 'text': 'Alchemists are keen on gold.\nBut to wrest its treasures from the universe:'}, {'start': '106.320', 'end': '110.840', 'text': "Its mysteries are well hidden\nin the galaxy's vaults.\xa0  Does"}, {'start': '110.840', 'end': '114.760', 'text': 'it sometimes give away\nsome grains of its wisdom?'}, {'start': '114.760', 'end': '122.680', 'text': 'Or is it said that philosophers\nare wisdom plunderers anyway,'}, {'start': '122.680', 'end': '129.040', 'text': 'they only want one thing?\nAnnoying mosquitoes?'}, {'start': '129.040', 'end': '133.240', 'text': 'Thoughts could fly like butterflies,\nlike birds.'}, {'start': '133.240', 'end': '136.840', 'text': 'But most of the time, people stick\nto the rules of thought.'}, {'start': '136.840', 'end': '141.880', 'text': 'You use the bridges provided.\nIn a dream you can float,'}, {'start': '141.880', 'end': '146.920', 'text': 'even if the birds are surprised:\nyou are not one of them.'}, {'start': '146.920', 'end': '152.840', 'text': 'Maintain the dreamy carefreeness.\nOtherwise you can bend it.'}, {'start': '152.840', 'end': '156.120', 'text': 'Friedrich Rückert says:\n"The fact that she wears the pearl'}, {'start': '156.120', 'end': '161.120', 'text': 'makes the shell sick; give thanks\nto heaven for the pain that'}, {'start': '161.120', 'end': '165.160', 'text': 'ennobles you."  It'}, {'start': '165.160', 'end': '171.720', 'text': 'would certainly make the oyster proud\nthat its method had been adopted.'}, {'start': '171.720', 'end': '175.840', 'text': "You wouldn't exactly\ncall yourself a pearl farmer,"}, {'start': '175.840', 'end': '177.880', 'text': 'but every now and then'}, {'start': '177.880', 'end': '183.320', 'text': 'pearls of wisdom unexpectedly appear.\nYou feel like a grand seigneur: you'}, {'start': '183.320', 'end': '195.160', 'text': 'toast with sparkling champagne –\nand raise a toast to the universe.'}]