Imagination Quote by Eavan Boland

I think . . . that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they may be…

— Corliss Lamont

Organized religion is sane and not silly when read as myth and poetry rather than science and law. Religion speaks nonsense when taken literally,…

— Rami M. Shapiro

I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies. They have…

— Adrienne Rich

I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.

— Andrew Solomon

Organized religion is the unholy mutation of faith

— Boaz Zippor

I'm obviously not orthodox, I don't know how many real poets have ever been orthodox.

— R. S. Thomas

If one believes philosophers, then what we call religion is only a deliberately popularized or an instinctively artless philosophy. Poets seem to consider religion…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Let the systematic theologian spell it out. Let the artists throw out thoughts and slants, maybe even slants no one else has thought of.…

— Steve Stockman

“Poetry aside, a religion is really a moral code, that is expressed through legends, myths, or any type of literary device in order to…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“However superficially appealing, the idea that a religious tradition could be saved from crisis because a group of intellectuals radically reinterpreted its sacred texts…

— Ross Douthat

“outside of the structures of the existing institutionalized religions. There were always pockets of spirituality even in mind-dominated religions, although the institutionalized hierarchies felt…

— Eckhart Tolle