Fordham University Masthead Logo DigitalResearch@Fordham Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Philosophy Collections 2006 Words in Blood, Like Flowers: Philosophy and Poetry, Music and Eros in Hölderlin, Nietzsche, and Heidegger Babette Babich Fordham University,
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[email protected]. Preface The title of this book, Words in Rlood, Like Flowcrs, repeats the language and the passions of Friedrich Hiilderlin and fri<::drich Ni<::tzsche. For it was Nietzsche who wrote of living with ideas as one li\'es with compan ions-as real as flesh and blood-and he spoke more f(xccfully of in blood, tdling us that of everything written, his Zarathustra "loves" "what one has written with on<::'s blood. Write with