I might have given one of the great prose poems in Nietzsche's Thus Spake zarathustra or a grand descriptive passage from Flaubert's novel Salammbo.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
Illowski best liked the Strauss setting of "Also Sprach zarathustra" because it approached his own darling project, though it neither touched the stars nor reached the earth.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
Perhaps she unconsciously cared for Arthur Vibert; and arguing the question as dispassionately as I could my eyes fell upon "Thus Spake zarathustra," and opening the fat unwieldy volume I read: "Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer than into the dreams of an ardent woman?"
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker