Age Quote by Mark Rothko

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

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are…

— Rollo May

Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes. The myth…

— Rollo May

The Gods and Goddesses of myth, legend and fairy tale represent archetypes, real potencies and potentialities deep within the psyche, which, when allowed to…

— Margot Adler

There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they…

— Maxine Hong Kingston

“Myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless pattern, the religious formula to which life shapes itself. Whereas in the life of…

— Clarissa Johal

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

— Joseph Campbell

“I see folktales and myths as humankind's first stories. They are a kind of collective dreaming, filled with timeless symbols and images we can…

— Marianna Mayer

We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our existence. Such…

— John Frederick Nims

Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language or code.…

— Kenny Smith

The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden…

— Anonymous

It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient Greek word…

— James Hillman