Active Quote by Peter Porter

“Paradise is not a garden of bliss and changeless perfection where the lions lie down like lambs (what would they eat?) and the angels…

— Edward Abbey

In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“No one really believes in the gods of the New Age; they are deities not of the celestial hierarchy above but of the ornamental…

— David Bentley Hart

The divine art is the story.

— Isak Dinesen

The gods are fugitive guests of literature.

— Roberto Calasso

There must be real gods see, the painted gods how fair!

— Hilda Doolittle

“They are the fallen gods. The new gods are producers, creators, doers. The new gods are the chinless techno-children who would rather eat white…

— Christopher Moore

The New Gods really need to be larger than life. There's an operatic quality to them, and they need to be handled pretty carefully,…

— Cliff Chiang

“More recently, some of us have been able to infiltrate the new ethereal-wave system that now encircles the globe, and to travel around that…

— Margaret Atwood

New gods arise when they are needed.

— Josephine Winslow Johnson

“Mythology and religion are relevant and remarkable, as they each represent imaginative truths – projections of human beings innermost desires – intermixed with fragments…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“The gods of the traditional world, with their supernatural powers, have been replaced by humans with bombs and shopping lists; the apocalypse has moved…

— Matthew Barrett Gross