"Light am I: ah, that I were night!"

"The night song", from "Thus spoke Zarathustra", written by Friedrich Nietzsche (1883-1885), talks about the meaning of life trought the opposition between light and dark, but in this poetry, dark means life and light means death.

"Light am I: ah, that I were night! But it is my lonesomeness to be begirt with light!

Ah, that I were dark and nightly! How would I suck at the breasts of light!

And you yourselves would I bless, ye twinkling starlets and glow-worms aloft!--and would rejoice in the gifts of your light".