“A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.”
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Friedrich Nietzsche655
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.
Jerome book De Viris Illustribus
Source: De Viris Illustribus, Chapter 5
“Praise with elation,
Praise every morning,
God's re-creation
Of the new day!”
Eleanor Farjeon (1881–1965) English children's writer
Morning Has Broken (1931)
Paul of Tarsus book Epistle to the Romans
Romans 8:18-22 http://www.jw.org/en/publications/bible/nwt/books/romans/8/, NWT <br class="br">Epistle to the Romans
“The poet is a god, or, the young poet is a god. The old poet is a tramp.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia
“Even the gods fight boredom in vain.”
Karl Schroeder (1962) Author. Technology consultant
Source: Lady of Mazes (2005), Chapter 22 (p. 252).
“Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom”
Gustave Flaubert book November
Source: November
“Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Gegen die Langeweile kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.
Sec. 48
The Antichrist (1888)
Source: The Anti-Christ