The command 'become hard! ', the deep conviction that all creators are hard, is the really distinctive sign of a Dionysian nature.
Hold a true friend with both your hands.
The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.
It is the evening that questions thus from within me.
Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!
New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.