Poets are shameless with their experiences they exploit them

The founder of one of the world's great philosophies, Buddha has inspired countless people through…. Published in Nietzsche and Philosopher. Your email address will not be published. Friedrich Nietzsche is best known for his work as a philosopher, in particular regarding nihilism. However the German was also a cultural critic and poet and he actually started his career as a philologist.

Whatever mood or emotion a poet may have can become romantically exploited for verse. This much is clear. The relation is more complex for the poet. Some lust and some boredom: that has so far been their best reflection. All their harp jingling is to me the breath and flitting of ghosts; what have they ever known of the fervor of tones?

The people which ceases to care for its literary inheritance becomes barbaric; the people which ceases to produce literature ceases to move in thought and sensibility. Criticism, of course, never does find out what poetry is, in the sense of arriving at an adequate definition; but I do not know of what use such a definition would be if it were found. Nor can criticism ever arrive at any final appraisal of poetry. The rudiment of criticism is the ability to select a good poem and reject a bad poem; and its most severe test is of its ability to select a good new poem, to respond properly to a new situation. The experience of poetry, as it develops in the conscious and mature person, is not merely the sum of the experiences of good poems. Education in poetry requires an organisation of these experiences.