Muse Quote by Walter Benjamin Download Open image “There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.” — Walter Benjamin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Muse Philosophy Translations
I am imbued with the notion that a Muse is necessarily a dead woman, inaccessible or absent; that a poetic structure - like the canon, which is only a hole surrounded by steel - can be based only on what one does not have; and that ultimately one can write only to fill a void or at the least to… — Michel Leiris Copy Share
“For those who do not write and who never have been stirred by the creative urge, talk of muses seems a figure of speech,… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god… — Eliza Farnham Copy Share Image
What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the higher instincts would bring to a finely organized human being. It may appear as prophesy or as poesy...should these faculties have free play, I believe they will open up new, deeper and purer sources of joyous… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share
“For those who do not write and who never have been stirred by the creative urge, talk of muses seems a figure of speech,… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I do have a muse. I am not sure how to describe her. She can be very elusive. She was born in England but… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
A translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it. — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
“I can assure you, as anyone who has ever met a muse knows, the best way to get a muse to hang around is… — Z.A. Maxfield Copy Share Image
All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than of convictions, and of such facts as have scarcely… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“It should be pointed out that certain correlative concepts retain their meaning, and possibly their foremost significance, if they are referred exclusively to man.… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“to great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives.” — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity’s entire mode of existence. The manner in which human sense… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
There was the pedestrian who wedged himself into the crowd, but there was also the flneur who demanded elbow room and was unwilling to… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I'm truly, 100% guided by the characters and my Muse. If one of the characters suddenly decided to do something very different, I'd just… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
You can wait forever for the muse to sit on your shoulder, but most of the time you know what has to be done… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Wrestling gave me something outside science, which was my muse before this. — Velveteen Dream Copy Share Image
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call. — Stephen Nachmanovitch 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
Art is the extended arm of your imagination, The feast of inspiration for your muse. Art isn't just creativity, its a way of life. — Sarah Curran Copy Share Image
Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god… — Eliza Farnham Copy Share Image
