Quotes About Myth

Nature is only another chimera.

Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify.

Patriotism is a myth conceived by those old rogues to draw us into the infernal game. Let them fight as they will, but we want no part of it.

All things fade and quickly turn to myth.

If your love never ends, you become a legend.

Have no fear, most of the Indigo children that are struggling are the children that have had a very difficult time trying to live up to societies Indigo myth that developed around them

I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.

Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.

Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops.

Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the universe is merely a ghost.

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.

Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that gratitude desperately.

The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.

Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language.

Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.

Trying to pump breath into a fairy tale is as arduous and tragic as ancient Greek theatre.

The increasing communalization of Indian politics is a juggernaut that annihilates the myth of secularism in India.

Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there own.

The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.

Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos -- art, not politics, is the remedy.

Being a superpower is like being a Santa Claus that everyone hates.

Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth.

The supernatural does not exist.

Lacking positive myths to guide him, many a sensitive contemporary man finds only the model of the machine beckoning him from every side to make himself over into its image.