“A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.”
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Friedrich Nietzsche 655
German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and cl… 1844–1900Related quotes

“Paul then, in the fourteenth year of Nero on the same day with Peter, was beheaded at Rome for Christ's sake and was buried in the Ostian way, the twenty-seventh year after our Lord's passion.”
Hic ergo quarto decimo Neronis anno, eodem die quo Petrus Romae, pro Christo capite truncatur, sepultusque est in via Ostiensi, anno post passionem Domini tricesimo septimo.
Source: De Viris Illustribus, Chapter 5

“Praise with elation,
Praise every morning,
God's re-creation
Of the new day!”
Morning Has Broken (1931)

“The poet is a god, or, the young poet is a god. The old poet is a tramp.”
Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia
“Even the gods fight boredom in vain.”
Source: Lady of Mazes (2005), Chapter 22 (p. 252).

“Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom”
Source: November

“Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.”
Gegen die Langeweile kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.
Sec. 48
The Antichrist (1888)
Source: The Anti-Christ