Biographies Quote by 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

It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.

— Kenzaburo Oe

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

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

— Joseph Campbell

For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“In myths, the hero survives. The evil is vanquished. The world is set right. Sometimes there are celebrations, and sometimes there are funerals. The…

— V.E. Schwab

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

“Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. The function of the…

— 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

A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports…

— Edward de Bono

“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

“[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