These sections examine more closely what is involved in the "higher" humans' renunciations. Although these poetic individuals do not uphold negative virtues or negate themselves in any way, they experience loss and pain from the renunciations required by artistic living. Striving to make one's life into a poem precludes stagnation and necessitates continual leave-taking from oneself and others. Clearly drawing on and portraying his own experience, Nietzsche describes several of these departures and the concomitant distress.