Books Quote by Charles Simic

“Classical mythology has been so influential upon Western culture that everyone who is alive to the art,culture,politics, and languages of today encounters it.”

— Helen Morales

Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much change over the millennia, as first the age of…

— Kate Bernheimer

Myth is very powerful and fiction is very powerful.

— Jeff Feuerzeig

“This book aims to capture, and explore, the outrageousness, inventiveness, and sheer fun that characterize classical mythology. But it is also born of the…

— Helen Morales

“This story twists the ancient myths we grow up with,” Berger says, “where what the reader knows about the Olympian gods, or thinks he…

— David Berger

“Mythology and religion are relevant and remarkable, as they each represent imaginative truths – projections of human beings innermost desires – intermixed with fragments…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Even when he turns from religion, man remains subject to it; depleting himself to create false gods, he then feverishly adopts them; his need…

— Emil Cioran

“Myths have always been archetypal realities, that through history or legend, remind the human being of his origin, his destiny, and the meaning of…

— Javier Cazañ

“We have looked for myths that include us in great novels, music, the latest comic book, or even some stupid advertising campaign. We'll look…

— Kate Bornstein

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

— Michael Shermer

Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm of a…

— Thomas Bulfinch

Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do…

— Northrop Frye