What did Nietzsche mean when he said, “All writing is useless that ...
I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.
Poetry and Ambition
If writing down your ideas always makes them more precise and more complete, then no one who hasn't written about a topic has fully formed ideas about it. And someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial.
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While the writing of an author of the third, the rare class, is like a chase where the game has been captured beforehand and cooped up in some enclosure from which it is afterwards set free, so many at a time, into another enclosure, where it is not possible for it to escape, and the sportsman has now nothing to do but to aim and fire-that is to sa
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Hence, the first rule-nay, this in itself is almost sufficient for a good style-is this, that the author should have something to say. Ah! this implies a great deal.