#furor poeticus

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#furor poeticus

[thecanvasofmadness]

“En el mundo antiguo se identificaba al poeta con el vidente o con el profeta inspirado por el fervor divino; Apolo era el dios de la profecía, pero también el dios de la poesía, y el arrebato o furor poeticus se convirtió en sinónimo de la creación lírica.”

Excerpt From Sonetos de Shakespeare - Español

William Shakespeare

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[emrauta]

some thoughts on Babylon

They say to write what you know, and if that’s the case, then it sure seems like Damien Chazelle knows artistic inspiration. I’ve seen a handful of critics— both real and Letterboxd— describe his films as an exploration of greatness, or sometimes the pursuit of greatness, or more specifically the pursuit of greatness in the arts, or even more specifically greatness in jazz. I’ve also seen postulations on a handful of other themes, like sacrifice, or outsiders, or exploitation. And maybe these analyses are correct, but if I had to guess, I’d say that all of that stuff is just surface level, and if you dig a little deeper upon any of those themes, you’ll come across the core tenet of a Chazelle story— what does it mean for an artist to be inspired?

In Whiplash and La La Land, that idea is easy to see; in both films, we watch the main characters become inspired to achieve greatness. In Babylon, it’s a bit trickier, because it’s reversed— what does it look like for an artist to lose that inspiration?

Nellie and Jack experience this phenomenon as they transition from beloved stars of silent films to drowning has-beens in a newly formed genre. Sure, they’re both troubled by a handful of other problems— relationships, money, the usual suspects— but what really haunts them is the feeling of inspiration slipping away, like grains of sand falling between the fingers of greedy hands. We get to watch Nellie and Jack die twice on screen— once, when the last grain of inspiration slips away, forever mooring them to a faded memory of what furor poeticus felt like— and then once more when their physical selves pass, though that kind of death is nothing more than an afterthought.

Inspiration’s most powerful moment comes at the end of the film, when Manny reunites with the cinema long after his golden days. In this scene, Manny seats himself amongst an already packed theater— his first film in many years— and he begins to sob as the movie plays. 

Manny weeps, not because he misses his deceased friends, his past work, or his luxurious lifestyle. He does not shed a tear for what could have been, or what currently is, nor are they tears of happiness as he falls in love with cinema all over again.

No, the last shot is Manny remembering the orgasmic warmth of inspiration— the feeling you get as an artist when you lean forward, wide-eyed, and begin to feel like anything is possible, like magic is possible, like the art gods wants to use you and only you to craft their greatest piece of work yet. It’s the greatest feeling in the world, and goddamnit, does Chazelle know it.

[zelihatrifles]

Fury

Furor poeticus is what made Coleridge's mad shaman whirl and create the magic of art, and furia is also what makes Professor-and-elite dollmaker Malik Solanka to live his life and loves. The dolls he make transcend his stories to become as ridiculously flamboyant as rebellious adolescent offspring, and replace his sapio-adventures with shallow amorous ones, and with the terrible coup of the spurned Indo-Lilly Blefuscu community, his creatures adopt his masks and identities beyond his dream:

Clay, of which God, who didn't exist, made man, who did. Such was the paradox of human life: its creator was fictional, but life itself was a fact.

Rushdie marvels (or is he repulsed?) by the wannabe Gods of this modern technological era:

Until the advent of hyperlinks, only God had been able to see simultaneously into past, present and future alike; human beings were imprisoned in the calendar of their days. Now, however, such omniscience was available to all, at the merest click of a mouse.

Not the least of his virtual and real illusions, his last love, an idealist of revolution and an ideal of beauty all rolled into one gorgeous woman, literally makes jaws drop and feet trip when she is around, and Solanka is almost, almost used to this goddess being in his presence, but she proves all his accustomed-ness wrong with her last plan and last words, when she saves poor captive Solanka as she willingly distracts the anti-Galileo tyrant, knowing she'd die anyway. She stands bravely against how:

No matter how astonishing the initial contact, in the end the beloved astonishes us less.

Rushdie, the only God i will willingly bow to, once again, my heart-felt admiration.

#fury #salman rushdie #books #reading #currently reading #postcolonial literature #magic realism #impressions not reviews

[ehj3]

HAS FUROR POETICUS LEFT THE BUILDING?

HAS FUROR POETICUS LEFT THE BUILDING?

I had great anxiety and no means of relieving it … And then it was that the Muse of Painting came to my rescue – out of charity and out of chivalry … – and said, ‘Are these toys any good to you? They amuse some people.’ ” —Winston Churchill Sorry, Winnie, there is no muse of painting. While many ancient gods and goddesses inspired the arts part-time; their day jobs were always war and/or…

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[anthropolite]

1,2, &7

1. When did you create your muse?Strictly speaking, Yali isn’t an OC, she’s a canon character, albeit one which surviving ancient sources mention a mere handful of times. She’s one of my oldest rp characters - I first started writing her in the late 1990s, though it wasn’t until 2013 that she migrated to Tumblr.

2. Where did you find inspiration for your muse?I’ve tried to write Yali in a way that’s faithful to her origins. Because Greek myth doesn’t have a canon, ancient writers held an open-minded attitude about using artistic license (or furor poeticus, depending on your point of view) to expand on existing characters. Where possible, I’ve tried to use her ancient descriptions and epithets as a springboard for my own writings, but naturally there are a lot of gaps to fill in.

7. How many face claims do you have or have you had for your muse?Elizabeth Gillies is the only faceclaim I’ve employed for Yali’s glamoured form (a suggestion from @misanthropicmegara!), although I’ll sometimes use paintings for her non-glamoured appearance.

#about Yali #creationsincarnate

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[tonguetiedmag]

Depression vs. Creativity

Hamlet and King Lear by William Shakespeare, An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Oedipus Tyrannus-Rex and Antigone by Sophocles, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman – works of sadness, fear, anger, madness, and sickness. What some call the best works, not only of our age, but of all ages. Timeless works of fiction – given a gripping and terrible edge by the non-fiction hidden behind the message that they convey. It is a message of intimacy. Not an intimacy of the body, but an intimacy of the human soul – an open doorway through which we see the lowest edge of human morality, understanding, and emotion. What scares us most is not the blood, not the anguish, and not the survival. It is the connection. Why do we understand these things? What is it about the human heart that connects us, even in our darkest and most personal moments, to those around us?

Today, to share her thoughts on the idea of artistic sadness and the depression that, at times, seems inherent to genius is Liliana Erickson. Liliana is a second-year political-sciences student at the University of Toronto, expert poet, and a woman of unimaginable inner strength. Here is an excerpt of one of her latest poems, titled “The Bone Garden”:

[...] of the 5,416 kinds of mammal, humans are the only species to eat with their eyes - The woman on the southbound train all knobbed joints and drooping skin had no real teeth of her own but was famished all the same; How sharp the human heart, 70 years into hunger - Her dentured gaze sunk into the flesh of my exposed thigh / the conspicuous curve of my breast full-gorged herself on the fat of my belly and cracked my bones, sucking at the uncouth marrow / Girls didn’t taste like this in her time, she licked her fingers clean Old eyes leave deep grooves, we speak of the body and almost break the skin.

What is it that haunts the human heart? What is it that fills the corridors of the creative mind, desperate to be let out? When a poet sits down in a black mood and writes, is it a birth or a release? Does the creativity expedite the depression, or does the depression nurture the creativity? Too often, it seems that they are so tightly intertwined that to separate them would be to divide the self. Poetry has always been used as a creative outlet. Creativity and invention have always been closely linked with necessity. Why, then, do we feel that poetry is not a human necessity? Henry David Thoreau, author of Walden Pond, once said: “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation”. Poets, in my belief, are the people who cannot suffer quietly. There is nothing quiet about their desperation – it is unsightly, horrific, and at times seems unbearable, but beyond that – it is passion. It is existence. John Keating, lead character of the hit film Dead Poets Society, said: “We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.”

It is not that depression breeds creativity or that creativity cultivates depression. Poets, and all creative people, are people that spend as much time inside of their own head as they do outside of it. When a person lives in darkness, it is darkness that they learn to survive in, to grow in, and to see in. It is also what they learn to recognize in other people. In this way, by spending time alone with their thoughts and their creative processes, artists learn to focus their emotional struggles into their art. People want to be seen – not on a physical level, but on a spiritual and cerebral one. Beyond being seen, people want to be understood. They want to be accepted. Just as poetry, art, and literature is an open doorway, it is also a speaking space. In true art, there are no podiums or pedestals – there is only openness, understanding, and acceptance.

Liliana writes more about her conflict with mental illness in regards to poetry with her poem “Longinus”:

[...] my work is patient, pious it endures, waiting for a little pill to pump my blood it knows that soon, I will flood the empty pages, erect Roman arches with a pen turn catacombes to August cathedrals fool to messiah, ink to wine, I myself will guide the lance to my side to prove my heart and all its blood are gold, a sanguine prophecy to be fulfilled as soon as I leave my bed.

Liliana is not the first creative person to suffer through depression – Vincent Van Gogh, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allen Poe, Virginia Woolf, and F Scott Fitzgerald to name just a few of the most westernly famous – and she will certainly not be the last. As far back as the days of Sappho, Democratus, and Plato, poets have been regarded as mouthpieces of the gods. This, it is said, came with what the Greeks and Romans called “Furor Poeticus”, which translates roughly into English: The Madness of the Poet, or Poetic Insanity. Sylvia Plath wrote this into one of her poems, titled Mad Girl's Love Song, with the line:

The stars go waltzing in blue and red, And arbitrary darkness gallops in[.]

At the moment, depression and mental illness seems to be growing among teenagers and adults alike. It seems, at first glance, that we are approaching an unknown darkness. Is it a destination that we approach, or is it simply the continuation of a sadness as old as humanity itself? There is no answer for this except time. But we should not look at this time with fear. Creativity is the outlet, and art is the light that we shine on ahead of ourselves. Artwork reveals the future as much as it reveals the self – and above all, this is what must be remembered: art is a way of proving that we are never truly alone. Even inside of ourselves, even in the dark unknown, we are together. Through art we lend comfort, strength, and belief. Art is connection. So connect – create, share, and inspire. No matter how dark and how ugly a place you may find yourself, there will be a light.

Article by: Isaak Frank

#Lit #poetry #depression #Depression vs. Creativity #Liliana Erickson #Isaak Frank #creativity

[musingcompany]

hello, world!! as always, I come back with the most random resources in the world. this time I’m presenting you all a list of #225 latin words/saying that can be used as tags, slogans (admins!!) and whatever else you find this useful for. if you guys want it in any other language, just let me know because I love words. hope y’all find this useful!

1. ab incunabulis: from the cradle 2. a bon chat, bon rat: to a good cat, a good rat (retaliation in kind) 3. a bouch ouverte: with open mouth (eagerly, uncritically) 4. ab ovo usque ad mala: from egg to apples (from beginning to end) 5. a bras ouverts: with open arms 6. ab uno disce omnes: from one learn to know all 7. a coup sur: with sure stroke (surely) 8. acte gratuit: gratuitous impulsive act 9. ad arbitrium: at will (arbitrarily) 10. ad extremum: to the extreme (at last) 11. ad majorem Dei gloriam: to the greater glory of God 12. ad patres: to his fathers (deceased) 13. ad unguem: to the fingernail (exactly) 14. ad utrumque paratus: prepared for either event 15. aegri somnia: a sick man’s dreams 16. aequam servare mentem: to preserve a calm mind 17. aequo animo: with even mind (calmly) 18. aere perennius: more lasting than bronze 19. a huis clos: with closed doors 20. a l’abandon: carelessly 21. a la belle etoile: under the beautiful star (in the open air at night) 22. a la bonne heure: at a good time (all right) 23. a la page: at the page (up to the minute) 24. alter idem: another self 25. a maximis ad minima: from the greatest to the least 26. a marveille: marvelously 27. amicus humani generis: friend of the human race 28. amicus usque ad aras: a friend as far as to the alters (a friend to the last extremity) 29. ami de cour: court friend 30. armamentum ad baculum: argument of the staff (appeal to force) 31. arrectis auribus: with ears pricked up 32. a torte et a travers: wrong and crosswise (without rhyme or reason) 33. au bout de son latin: at the end of one’s Latin (at the end of one’s mental resources) 34. au fait: to the point (socially correct) 35. au grand serieux: in all serious 36. au mieux: on the best terms (on intimate terms) 37. aurea mediocritas: the golden mean 38. auspicium melioris aevi: an omen of a better age 39. ausssitot dit, aussitot fait: no sooner said than done 40. autres temps, autres moeurs: other times, other customs 41. aut vincere aut mori: either to conquer or to die 42. bellum omnium contra onnes: war of all against all 43. bien-pensant: right minded (orthodox) 44. bon gre, mal gre: whether with good grace or bad (willy-nilly) 45. bonis avibus: under good auspices 45. brutum fulmen: insensible thunderbolt (futile threat of display of force) 47. cadit quaestio: the question drops (the argument collapses) 48. capable de tout: capable of anything (unpredictable) 49. cause sine qua non: an indispensable cause or condition 50. cheval de bataille: war-horse (argument constantly relied on) 51. comedie humaine: human comedy (the whole variety of human life) 52. comedie larmoyante: tearful comedy (sentimental comedy) 53. comagnon de voyage: traveling companion 54. compte rendu: report 55. concordia discors: discordant harmony 56. confessio fidei: confession of faith 57. contemptus mundi: contempt for the world 58. coup de maitre: masterstroke 59. coup d’essai: experiment 60. coute que coute: cost what it may 61. cri de coeur: cry of the heart 62. crise de conscience: crisis of conscience 63. crise de nerfs: crisis of nerves 64. crux criticorum: crux of critics 65. cum grano salis: with a grain of salt 66. custos morum: guardian of morals (censor) 67. de bonne grice: with good grace 68. de l’audace, encore de l’audace, et toujours de l’audace: audacity, more audacity, and ever more audacity 69. de mal en pis: from bad to worse 70. Deo favente: with God’s favor 71. de profundis: out of the depths 72. desipere in loco: to indulge in trifling at the proper time 73. Deus absconditus: hidden God (unknowable God) 74. dies faustus: lucky day 75. dies infaustus: unlucky day 76. dies irae: day of wrath 77. esprit d’le escalier: the wit of the staircase 78. faux bonhomme: false friend 79. faux-naif: affectedly simple or childlike 80. festina lente: make haste slowly 81. feux d’artifice: fireworks, or show of wit 82. folie de grandeur: delusion of greatness, megalomania 83. furor loquendi: rage for speaking 84. furor poeticus: rage for poetry 85. furor scribendi: rage for writing 86. gens du mond: fashionable people 87. guerre a outrance: war to the uttermost 88. haut gout: slight taint of decay 89. hic illae lacrimae: hence these tears 90. homme d’esprit: witty man 91. in omnia paratus: ready for all things 92. in partibus infidelium: in the land of the infidels 93. in statu quo ante bellum: just like before the war 94. januis clausis: behind closed doors 95. jeu de mots: play on words 96. ktema es ai: a possession for ever (enduring art or literature) 97. la belle dame sans merci: the beautiful lady without mercy 98. lacrimae rerum: tragedy of life 99. lapsus calami: slip of the pen 100. lapsus linguae: slip of the tongue 101. laudatory temporis acti: one who praises past times 102. lusis naturae: freak of nature 103. magni nominis umbra: the shadow of a great name 104. malade imaginaire: imaginary invalid 105. malis avibus: under evil auspices 106. mauvais quart d’heure: uncomfortable but brief experience 107. meden agen: nothing in excess 108. mens sana in corpore sano: a sound mind in a sound body 109. metteur et scene: (stage or film) director 110. meum et tuem: mine and yours 111. mirabile visu: wonderful to behold 112. mole ruit sua: it collapses from its own size 113. monumentum aere perennius: a monument more lasting than bronze 114. multum in parvo: much in little 115. mysterium tremendum: overwhelming mystery 116. ne quid nimis: not anything in excess 117. nil admirari: equanimity 118. nolens volens: willy-nilly 119. nostalgie de la boue: attraction to what is unworthy, crude, or degrading 120. novus homo: upstart 121. novus ordo seclorum: a new cycle of the ages 122. nuit blanche: sleepless night 123. obscurum per obscurius: explaining the obscure by means of the more obscure 124. onus probandi: burden of proof 125. ore rotundo: eloquently 126. otium cum dignitate: leisure with dignity 127. outre-mer: overseas 128. pallida Mors: pale Death 129. panem et circenses: bread and circuses 130. pater patriae: father of his country 131. paucis verbis: in a few words 132. pax vobiscum: peace be with you 133. peine forte et dure: strong and hard punishment 134. per angusta ad augusta: through difficulties to honors 135. peu a peu: little by little 136. peu de chose: a trifle 137. peu d’occasion: piece for a special occasion 138. piece justificative: document serving as evidence 139. piece montee: set piece (said of decorative food) 140. pleno jure: with full right 141. plus royaliste que le roi: more royalist than the king 142. pocas palabras: few words 143. point de repere: point of reference 144. police verso: with thumb turned (down) 145. pour rire: for laughing (not to be taken seriously) 146. pro aris et focis: for alters and firesides 147. pro bono publico: for the public good 148. pro hac vice: for this occasion 149. pro patria: for one’s country 150. pro rege, lege, et grege: for the king, the law, and the people 151. pro re nata: as needed 152. quantum mutates ab illo: how changed from what he once was 153. quantum sufficit: as much as suffices 154. quoad hoc: to this extent 155. quod erat demonstrandum: which was to be proved 156. quod erat faciendum: which was to be done 157. quod semper, quod ubique, quo dab omnibus: what (has been held) always, everywhere, by everybody 158. quorum pars magna fui: in which I played a great part 159. raison d’etat: reason of state 160. reculer pour mieux sauter: to draw back in order to make a better jump 161. re infecta: the beusiness being unfinished 162. religio loci: religious sanctity of a place 163. ruse de guerre: war strategem 164. rus in urbe: country in the city 165. saeva indignatio: fierce indignation 166. sal Atticum: Attic salt (wit) 167. salon des refuses: salon of the refused (exhibition of officially rejected art) 168. salto mortale: deadly jump (dangerous or crucial undertaking) 169. sancta simplicitas: holy simplicity (naivete) 170. sans doute: without doubt 171. sans gene: without embarrassment or constraint 172. sans peur et sans reproche: without fear and without reproach 173. sans souci: without worry 174. scene a faire: obligatory scene 175. secundum artem: according to the art (according to the accepted practice) 176. secundum naturam: according to nature (naturally) 177. se defendendo: in self-defense 178. semper eadem: always the same (feminine form) 179. semper fidelis: always faithful 180. semper idem: always the same (masculine form) 181. semper paratus: always prepared 182. simpliste: naive 183. splendide mendax: nobly untruthful 184. spolia opima: rich spoils (spoils of the victor) 185. status quo ante bellum: the state existing before the war 186. suaviter in modo, fortiter in re: gently in manner, strongly in deed 187. suo jure: in his own right 188. suo loco: inits proper palce 189. suo marte: by one’s own exertions 190. sur place: in place (on the spot) 191. suum cuique: to each his own 192. tant mieux: so much the better 193. tant pis: so much the worse (too bad) 194. tempus edax rerum: time, that devours all things 195. totidem verbis:: in so many words 196. totis viribus: with all one’s might 197. toto caelo: by the whole extenet of the heavens 198. toujour perdix: always partridge (too much of a good thing) 199. tour d’horizon: circuit of the horizon (general survey) 200. tous frais faits: all expenses defrayed 201. taut au contraire: quite the contrary 202. tout a vous: wholly yours (at your service) 203. tout bien ou rien: everything well (done) or nothing (attempted) 204. tout court: quite short (simply) 205. tout de meme: all the same (nevertheless) 206. tout de suite: Immediately 207. tout ensemble: all together 208. tout le monde: everybody 209. trahison de clercs: treason of the intellectuals 210. tanche de vie: slice of life 211. tristesse: melancholy 212. ultima ratio regum: the final argument of kings (war) 213. uno animo: with one mind 214. urbi et orbi: to the city and the world (to everyone) 215. utile dulci: the useful with the agreeable 216. va et vient: coming and going (traffic) 217. ventre a terre: belly to the ground (at very great speed) 218. verbatim ac litteratim: word for word, and letter for letter 219. vieux jeu: old game (old hat) 220. vin du pays: wine of the locality 221. virgo intacta: untouched virgin 222. virtute et armis: by valor of arms 223. vis medicatrix natureae: the healing power of nature 224. vita nuova: new life 225. vox et praeterea nihil: voice and nothing more

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[xrayoncrazymind]

Furor poeticus.

[tonylamothe]

[brighteyedbeast]

In Greek thought, inspiration meant that the poet or artist would go into ecstasy or "furor poeticus", the divine frenzy or poetic madness. He or she would be transported beyond his own mind and given the gods' or goddesses own thoughts to embody.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artistic_inspiration

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