Showing posts with label Mircea Eliade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mircea Eliade. Show all posts

Sunday, June 11, 2023

A Personal Universe


"Poetry remakes and prolongs language;
every poetic language begins
by being a secret language, that is,
the creation of a personal universe,
 of a completely closed world.
The purest poetic act seems to
re-create language from an
inner experience that …
reveals the essence of things."

- Mircea Eliade (1907 - 1986)
Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Sacred Tree


"The sacred tree,
the sacred stone
are not adored
as stone or tree;
they are worshipped
precisely because
they are hierophanies,
because they show
something that is
no longer stone
or tree but sacred,
the ganz andere
or 'wholly other.'"

Mircea Eliade (1907 - 1986)
Myths, Dreams and Mysteries

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Art, World, Transcendence

“In kindergarten we drew three daffodils that
had just been picked out of the yard;
and while I was drawing,
my sharpened yellow pencil and the
cup of the yellow daffodils
gave off whiffs just alike.
That the pencil doing the
drawing should give off the
same smell as the flower it
drew seemed part of the art lesson.
Children, like animals, use all their
senses to discover the world.
Then artists come along and
discover it the same way, all over again.”
Eudora Welty
Author / Photographer
(1909-2001)

“In one way or another,
the Cosmos we inhabit -
human body, house, territory,
world - communicates from
above with another
level which is transcendent.”
Mircea Eliade
Philosopher
(1907-1986)