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Cf. Holderlin’s “Patmos”:
“Near is / And difficult to grasp, the God. / But where danger threatens /
That which saves from it also grows. / In gloomy places dwell / The eagles, and fearless over /
The chasm walk the sons of the Alps / On bridges lightly built. /
Therefore, since round about / Are heaped the summits of Time / And the most loved live near, growing faint /
On mountains most separate, / Give us innocent water, / 0 pinions give us, with minds most faithful /
To cross over and to return”
(Friedrich Holder/in: Poems and Fragments, trans. Michael Hamburger [London: Anvil Press Poetry, 2004], 567).
In 1912, Jung commented on this in Transformations and Symbols of the Libido, CW B, §§ 669ff. See also my C. G. Jung: A Biography in Books, pp. 12ff. ~The Black Books, Vol. VI, Page 255, fn 258
