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Stephen Mitchell

Stephen Mitchell Quotes

Total quotes: 3

Stephen Mitchell

Birthname

Educated At: Yale University, Amherst College

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Hellenist, Bible Translator, Iliad's Translator, Odyssey's Translator, Writer

Total quotes: 3

“Everyone knows the impulse to imagine that we were meant to be the citizens of some other place. It is from this sensation that the angels come into existence, creating in this world their ambience of pure loss.”

— Stephen Mitchell, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

Tagged: Idealism, Angels

“What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.”

— Stephen Mitchell, The Frog Prince

“Happily ever after doesn't begin with Once upon a time: it begins with Now.”

— Stephen Mitchell, The Frog Prince

Tagged: Happily Ever After, fairy tales, Dreams

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