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Stephen Mitchell
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born
January 01, 1943
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Brooklyn, NY, The United States
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Poetry, Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction
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Mitchell was educated at Amherst College, the University of Paris, and Yale University. He is widely known for his translations of ancient classics, which use a poetic rather than literal approach. Languages that Stephen Mitchell has translated from include German, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, and Danish. Languages that he has not translated from, but rather put together interpretive versions from existing translations into Western languages include Chinese (Tao Te Ching), (The Second Book of the Tao), Sanskrit (Bhagavad Gita), Akkadian or ancient Babylonian (Gilgamesh). He has also written the nonfiction book The Gospel According to Jesus, and co-wrote two of Byron Katie's books, Loving What Is and A Thousand Names for J...more
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"There are two kinds of women: those who marry princes and those who marry frogs. The frogs never become princes, but it is an acknowledged fact that a prince may very well, in the course of an ordinary marrige, gradually, at first almost imperceptibly, turn into a frog. Happy the woman who after twenty-five years still wakes up beside the prince she fell in love with."
— Stephen Mitchell (The Frog Prince: A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults)
— Stephen Mitchell (The Frog Prince: A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults)
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"Children understand that 'once upon a time' refers not only--not even primarily--to the past, but to the impalpable regions of the present, the deeper places inside us where princes and dragons, wizards and talking birds, impassable roads, impossible tasks, and happy endings have always existed, alive and bursting with psychic power."
— Stephen Mitchell
— Stephen Mitchell
"What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing."
— Stephen Mitchell (The Frog Prince: A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults)
— Stephen Mitchell (The Frog Prince: A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults)



















