The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“Yet the idea that all humans are equal is also a myth. In what sense do all humans equal one another?” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Ritual and myth are like seed crystals of new patterns that can eventually reshape culture around them. — Starhawk Copy Share Image
I sometimes wonder if our memories are a myth. We think we remember, but we are remembering the story and not the… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature. — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
We need images and myths through which we can see who we are and what we might become. — Christine Downing Copy Share Image
...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations… — Henry Jenkins Copy Share Image
This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Today, aid to Colombia is given under the pretext of a drug war. That's pretty hard to take seriously. Ten years ago,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the… — Camryn Manheim Copy Share Image
The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“of the race, untrammelled by the necessity of rigid adherence to the fact. The myths record the earliest attempt at an explanation… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
“Myths are the retrospective transfiguration of sacrificial crises, the reinterpretation of those crises in light of the cultural order that has arisen… — René Girard Copy Share Image
Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“In actuality, myths are neither fiction nor history. Nor are most myths—and this will surprise some people—an amalgamation of fiction and history.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I see "demand creation" as a 20th-century construct that's bound up with advertising. It's an outmoded view of marketing that says, "First,… — Marty Neumeier Copy Share Image
“CAMPBELL: The individual has to find an aspect of myth that relates to his own life. Myth basically serves four functions. The… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
In my neighborhood - West 121st Street in New York, "white Harlem" - there were only two drugs: smack and marijuana. By… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though… — Bernie Siegel M.D Copy Share Image
...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up… — Toby Lester Copy Share Image
Every gay person must come out. As difficult as it is, you must tell your immediate family. You must tell your relatives.… — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
