Quotes About Mythology

Somehow, as the reading public has internalized narratives about American national and regional pasts, we have forgotten that Detroit is ancient, that Detroit is indigenous, and that Detroit has a long-standing black presence. We have misplaced the knowledge that most of the Midwest was French…We have never deeply considered the reality that slavery existed even in the Midwest…and in Canada where a 'mythology' of a black 'haven' holds sway.

Waeges, Menog, and Oestara." I named them from right to left. "Autumn, Winter, and Spring.

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

Carl Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

And at the end of seven years the Queen of the Faeries pays a tithe to Hell," Aikin finished, as he joined them. "That's what it says in 'Tam Lin'.

So what did influence 'Bird Box?' Well, I've had a crush on Medusa since about 1985. Maybe the book is an ode to her.

I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it.

It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.

One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist.

Israel is too attached to America, too influenced by America. It should be connected to Europe. America is based on mythology - the free man, the individual, the open frontier. Europe is more conscious of history. Take Britain and Shakespeare. You shape your identity through history.

I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.

But I loved Narcissus because as he lay on my banks and looked down at me, in the mirror of his eyes I saw ever my own beauty mirrored.

Cupids laughed round it as of old.

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.

for no god may undo what another god has done...

Argus, you are fallen, and the light in all your lamps is utterly put out: one hundred eyes, one darkness all the same!

Apollo Loves at first sight; he wants to marry Daphne, He hopes for what he wants—all wishful thinking!

the gods are created by poets --Ovid

you put too much faith in the power of the gods, if you think they can give and take away the shape of things

Vulcan, the god who had forged his armour, had fired his body to ashes; all that remained of Achilles the great was a small amount of material, barely sufficient to fill an urn. But his fame lives on to fill the expanse of the whole wide world. His glory measures up to the man; it matches his noble self, untouched by shadowy Hades.

My mind leads me to speak now of forms changed into new bodies: O gods above, inspire this undertaking (which you've changed as well) and guide my poem in its epic sweep from the world's beginning to the present day. The

I intend to speak of metamorphoses.

When lizard-footed giants climbed the hills And with a hundred hands clawed at the sky.

Non inpune feres neque'' ait ''reddere Canenti, laesaque quid faciat, quid amans, quid femina disces rebus'' ait ''sed amans et laesa et femina Circe!