Forsooth! He serves you after strange divices.

No earthly meat or drink the fool suffices.

His spirit’s ferment far aspireth,

Half conscious of his frenzied, crazed unrest;

The fairest stars from Heaven he requireth,

From Earth the highest raptures and the best,

And all the Near and Far that he desireth

Fail to subdue the tumult of his breast.

~Mephistopheles, Faust I, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~