Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“If the poet is not a real genius, I do not know what a genius is.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This verse gets me through each day, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger! I am not afraid of anything because the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“How little the world would look moral without forgetfulness! A poet might say that God made forgetfulness the guard he placed at… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Plato has given to all posterity the model of a new art form, the model of the novel --which may be described… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“That poem was not by me. It is among the things which quite overpower me; I have never been able to read… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Four very strange and truly poetic human beings in this century have attained mastery in prose, for which this century was not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Yet nothing can be more certain than this: what makes a poet a poet is the fact that he sees himself surrounded… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“As long as the sole ruler and disposer of the universe, the nous , remained excluded from artistic activity, things were mixed… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Has anyone...any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? ... There is an ecstasy such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Why does Homer give us descriptions so much more vivid than all the poets. Because he sees so much more around him.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
