Poet Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Pain makes hens and poets cackle.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“If the poet is not a real genius, I do not know what a genius is.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Has anyone...any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? ... There is an ecstasy such…

— Friedrich Nietzsche