Famous quotes containing the words personal and/or experiences:
“I was not at all apprehensive about ... disease ... [it] had no terrors for me. The thing I most feared in the world was hunger. That was something of which I had personal knowledge.”
—Madeleine [Blair], U.S. prostitute and “madam.” Madeleine, ch. 4 (1919)
“Poets treat their experiences shamelessly: they exploit them.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)