The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
To a large extent, the aged in our society are ghettoized. Old people are seen as useless, bypassed by history, old-fashioned, in… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
There are some disabling myths about what art is, how to do it, what is good art, and what art is for,… — Peter London Copy Share Image
I never pulled a loaded pistol on anybody, but it got around that I did. It got turned into lore. It's a… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
The more real things get, the more like myths they become. There have always been myths, but the myths of earlier times… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share Image
It struck me that what I'd heard about certain celebrities was true: they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power… — Michael Bergin Copy Share Image
The myth of the self-sufficient individual and of the self-sufficient, protected, and protective familytells us that those who need help are ultimately… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
I like believing. I believe in all of these Irish myths, like leprechauns. Not the pot of gold, not the Lucky Charms… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
So long has the myth of feminine inferiority prevailed that women themselves find it hard to believe that their own sex was… — Elizabeth Gould Davis 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
Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
When we die, as when the scenes have been fixed on to celluloid and the scenery is pulled down and burnt —… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
There's a longstanding myth about the United States that is still very prevalent in Europe [despite recent developments]. Historically the "America" of… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
The Language of Sand has something for everyone: myths, mystery, community, humor, grief, and ultimately healing. I found myself not only rooting… — Brunonia Barry Copy Share Image
Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Let the Bible be the Bible. It's not about science. It's not accurate history. It is a grab bag of religious fantasies… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
If you did not know at age five that the gods are made up beings and the myths made up stories, you… — Suetonius Copy Share Image
In our island myth this was the prescribed end of marriages like mine: the wife goes off with someone from the Cercle… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
