Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them. ✨ Fried…

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Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them. ✨ Friedrich Nietzsche, Rolf-Peter Horstmann, Judith Norman (2002). Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, p.71, Cambridge University Press
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