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“they would be astonished to discover the seriously German problem that we are dealing with, a vortex and a turning-point at the very centre of German hopes. But perhaps those same people will find it distasteful to see an aesthetic problem taken so seriously, if they can see art as nothing more than an entertaining irrelevance, an easily dispensable tinkle of bells next to the 'seriousness of life': as if no one was aware what this contrast with the 'seriousness of life' amounted to. Let these serious people know that I am convinced that art is the supreme task and the truly metaphysical activity of this life in the sense of that man, my noble champion on that path, to whom I dedicate this book.”

Art Music Sublime Metaphysical Aesthetics Apollo Romanticism German Wagner Dionysos

Book:The Birth of Tragedy

Source: The Birth of Tragedy

“Just as you will never lose me, you will never lose your crown. Your coronet will guide sailors to safety through the labyrinth of the treacherous seas. Women will look to it for a sign of comfort, a light in the darkness. Children will whisper their wishes to it before they close their eyes to dream. It will stay there, fast and true, for all time.”

Love Promise Gift Crown Constellation Ariadne Dionysos

Book:Ariadne

Source: Ariadne

“Plato forbids children wine till eighteen years of age, and to get drunk till forty; but, after forty, gives them leave to please themselves, and to mix a little liberally in their feasts the influence of Dionysos, that good deity who restores to younger men their gaiety and to old men their youth...fit to inspire old men with mettle to divert themselves in dancing and music; things of great use, and that they dare not attempt when sober.”

Inspiration Youth Wine Dancing Drinking Old Age Drunk Daring Sober Plato Free Spirit Laws Dionysos Legal Age

Book:The Complete Essays

Source: The Complete Essays

“Every culture that has lost myth has lost, by the same token, its natural healthy creativity. Only a horizon ringed about with myths can unify a culture. The forces of imagination and the Apollonian dream are saved only by myth from indiscriminate rambling. The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, ubiquitous but unnoticed, presiding over the growth of the child's mind and interpreting to the mature man his life and struggles.”

Drama Tragedy Myth Theatre Apollo Archetypes Totem Dionysos Cultural Unity

Book:The Birth of Tragedy

Source: The Birth of Tragedy

“Let us hang garlands of celery across our foreheads and call a festival to Dionysos.”

Willis Barnstone Anakreon Dionysos

Author:Anakreon

“Let us drink. Why wait for the lighting of the lamps? Night is a hair's breadth away. Take down the great goblets from the shelf, dear friend, for the son of Semele and Zeus gave us wine to forget our pains. Mix two parts water, one wine, and let us empty the dripping cups—urgently.”

Willis Barnstone Alkaios Dionysos

Author:Alkaios