Events Quote by Joseph Campbell

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

— Joseph Campbell

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.

— Joseph Campbell

Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the…

— Joseph Campbell

“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

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

“A myth is an unverifiable and typically fantastic story that is nonethless felt to be true and that deal with a theme of some…

— John Bierhorst

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

I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem…

— Joseph Campbell

The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.

— Cecil Day-Lewis

“Myth is the isthmus which connects the peninsular world of thought with that vast continent we really belong to. It is not, like truth,…

— C.S. Lewis

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

Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration.

— Anne Waldman