I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,'… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“CAMPBELL: All poets. Poetry is a metaphorical language. MOYERS: A metaphor suggests potential. CAMPBELL: Yes, but it also suggests the actuality that… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“In our society of fixed texts and printed words, it is the function of the poet to see the life value of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The poet Yeats felt we were living in the last of a great Christian cycle. His poem “The Second Coming” says, “Turning… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“How, in the contemporary period, can we evoke the imagery that communicates the most profound and most richly developed sense of experiencing… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If a person does not listen to the demands of their own spiritual and heart life and insists on a certain program, you're going… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Your ego is your embodiment and your self is your potentiality and that's what you listen to when you listen for the voice of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that's always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
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