Ancient Quote by Anne Carson

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

Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life.

— Joseph Campbell

Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity…

— Joseph Campbell

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

— David Mitchell

“the deepest function of myth, which is to lend narrative order to apparently disconnected bits of information,”

— Christopher Ryan

Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word 'myth' only…

— Adam Kirsch

Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more tell us…

— Joseph Campbell

“You call a tree a tree, he said, and you think nothing more of the word. But it was not a 'tree' until someone…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“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

“[Northrop] Frye was concerned mostly with literary criticism, and myths interested him as structural elements in works of literature. He used the word myth…

— Margaret Atwood

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

— C. S. Lewis

It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient Greek word…

— James Hillman