“Only fool! Only poet!
Merely speaking colorfully,
From fools' masks shouting colorfully,
Climbing about on deceptive word-bridges,
On misleading rainbows,
Between false heavens
Rambling, lurking —
Only fool! Only poet!”

—  Friedrich Nietzsche, book Dionysian-Dithyrambs

Dionysian-Dithyrambs (1888)

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German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and cl… 1844–1900

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