We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion about us. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go