“The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission.” HumansGivenMysteryDivineWillingPoetRemainsMissionsReverence Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.” RealityOrderHoursFictionPoetMissionsFiction And Reality Author:Isak Dinesen
“other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of their divine mission; but we, - we strut and fret our hour upon the stage, and then the curtain falls and all is darkness and silence.” ArtistFallActorsHoursMemoriesSilenceDarknessStageProduceDivinePoetMusicianEvidenceTheaterMissionsPainterCurtainsSculptors Author:Charlotte Saunders Cushman
“When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.” MenPoetMusicianFundamentalsMedicineDetermineMissionsDancerPriestsSwingsExistentialFulfillingRequirements Book:The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy Source: The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy
“Happy indeed the poet of whom, like Orpheus, nothing is known but an immortal name! Happy next, perhaps, the poet of whom, like Homer, nothing is known but the immortal works. The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission.” HumansNextNamesGivenKnownMysteryDivineWillingPoetFameRemainsMissionsImmortalReverenceOrpheus Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“The war in Afghanistan was fought for feminist reasons, and the Marines were really on this feminist mission. But today, all the women in all these countries have been driven back into medieval situations. Women who were liberated, women who were doctors and lawyers and poets and writers and - you know, pushed back into this Shia set against Sunnis. The U.S. is supporting al-Qaeda militias all over this region and pretending that it's fighting Islam. So we are in a situation that is psychopathic.” KnowsHas BeensWarCountryReasonTodayFightingSituationPoetDoctorsIslamFeministMissionsDrivenLawyerRegionsAlsPretendingAfghanistanMarineMedievalLiberatedAl QaedaMilitiaShiaPsychopathicLiberated Woman Author:Arundhati Roy
“I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result.” FeelsResultsClearPoetBecomingMusicianStrongerMental HealthAthletePhilosopherMissionsIntegratingJocksLethargyBecoming Stronger Author:Alanis Morissette