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The moment there is imagination there is myth

— Camille Paglia

The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating those we evoke those powers in…

— Joseph Campbell

Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.

— Joseph Campbell

“Find your myth. As Joseph Campbell observed, "Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural…

— Robert Moss

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

When you step further into the story you came to live, not only does the mythic territory open, but the deep self moves and…

— Michael Meade

Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter.

— Maya Deren

“All our language is composed of brief little dreams; and the wonderful thing is that we sometimes make of them strangely accurate and marvelously…

— Paul Valéry

There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.

— William S. Burroughs

There is a place where the human enters dream and myth, and becomes a part of it, or maybe it is the other way…

— Linda Hogan

There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.

— Philipp Meyer

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

— Alan Watts