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“We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the evening, from his empty mug With gleaming eye glanced towards us: "I see...”
“A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some aspect of our mysterious selves. A myth, in this way of thinking, is ...”
“All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.”
“Myth is what we call other people's religion.”
“Humans are a story telling species. Throughout history we have told stories to each other and ourselves as one of the ways to understand the world around us. Every culture has its creation myth for...”
“Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so.”
“People need foundation myths, some imprint of year zero, a bolt that secures the scaffolding that in turn holds fast the entire architecture of reality, of time: memory-chambers and oblivion-cellar...”
“Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.”
“Stories are psycho-diagnostic they diagnose the condition of our psyches. When we watch, read or hear a story, whatever detail jumps out reflects an issue in our psyche that requires our attention.”
“The truth of a myth, your Honor, is not its words but its patterns.”
“Myths grew from the ancient tradition of passing on knowledge orally, the only means of doing so before writing.Theyre narratives of human existence. They helped our ancestors interpret reality, so...”
“If professional religious leaders cannot instruct us in mythological lore, our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role and bring fresh insight to our lost and damaged ...”
“As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.”
“Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.”
“The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.”
“When we kissed, the skies had never appeared more heavenly, nor the seas a more brilliant shade of sapphire blue.”
“[a] characteristic of a symbol is that it opens up levels of reality which otherwise are closed for us.[a symbol] also unlocks dimensions and elements of our soul which correspond to the dimensions...”
“What myth can hold when you kneel in your brothers remains? When you slit his throat yourself? What story can guide us if we can betray all?”
“A myth is a story that is "more than true." Many stories are true because one person, somewhere, at some time, lived it. It is based on fact. But a myth is more than true because it is lived by all...”
“A myth is a story that is "more than true." Many stories are true because one person, somewhere, at some time, lived it. But a myth is more than true because it is lived by all of us, at some level...”
