That a Goethe, that a Shakespeare cannot breathe for a moment in this atmosphere of passion and altitude, that Dante, near Zarathustra, be only a believer, and not someone who begins by creating the truth, a spirit that governs the world, a destiny – may the poets of Veda be priests and not even worthy to undo the Zarathustra's shoes, that is still only a litot and gives no idea of the distance, the Azurean solitude where this work lives" (Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, "Why I write such good books"). "This work is completely apart. Let us not speak here of poets: perhaps there has never been anything that is such an abundance of strength. My notion of 的dionysiaque has been done here in a brilliant action; compared to it, any other human action appears miserable and limited.