Allowing Quote by Anne Carson

Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language or code.…

— Kenny Smith

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and…

— D. H. Lawrence

The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.

— David Mitchell

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

— C. S. Lewis

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

— Alan Watts

All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.…

— Anne Carson

“Myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless pattern, the pious formula, into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out…

— Thomas Mann Mythology by Christopher Dell

“A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension... A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a…

— Brian Godawa

A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.

— Jean Houston

The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden…

— Anonymous

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what…

— Ashwin Sanghi

A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some aspect of…

— Christopher Vogler