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 OF POETS 183

What is for it beauty and sea and peacock-decora- tion ? This simile I give unto poets.

Verily, their mind itself is the peacock of peacocks, and a sea of vanity !

The mind of poets wisheth spectators, even if it were buffaloes !

But I wearied of that mind ; and I see a time when it will weary of itself.

Changed already have I seen the poets, and their glance turned against themselves.

Penitents of spirit I saw come. They grew out of poets."

Thus spake Zarathustra.

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