Branches Quote by Roberto Calasso Download Open image “Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.” — Roberto Calasso ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Branches Myth Stories Tree Trees
Myths are the prototype for all stories. When we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with all sorts… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived. — John Boorman Copy Share Image
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I think of a myth as a story that helps you explain all the different pieces of your life. In that broad sense, there… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them. — Silas Weir Mitchell Copy Share Image
A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
The author is the successor of the saint, everyone respects the author. — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
“Maybe I’m inclined to what Nietzsche called “impure thought,” that is to say, a kind of thought where abstractions are so mixed with the… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
“As the Greeks see it, elegance arises from excavation, from the cavity.” — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive. — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
The monster does not need the hero. it is the hero who needs him for his very existence. When the hero confronts the monster,… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
“They had to stir the churn of the ocean, until the soma floated up, as butter floats from milk. And this task could not… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward. — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
We establish a connection with the unknown through the act of giving something and, paradoxically, the act of destroying something. That is what is… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
Wendy Doniger has spent decades collecting not only myths from ancient texts but stories of all kinds from novels, movies, newspapers about an old… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
“Baudelaire was far more than a great poet. He established the keyboard of a sensibility that still lives within us, if we are not… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In our system of government, the judicial and legislative branches have different roles. Judges are not politicians. Judges must decide cases, not champion causes.… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
The sugar maple is remarkable for its clean ankle. The groves of these trees looked like vast forest sheds, their branches stoppingshort at a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Where is the subject that does not branch out into infinity? For every grain of sand is a mystery; so is every daisy in… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
“The branches do not support the root. But the root supports the branches.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision. — Byron White Copy Share Image
Certainly in the United States, you have a constituency in the form of the weapons laboratories, and you also have the branches of the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person. — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
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