Appreciated Quote by Thomas Bulfinch

One is almost tempted to say that the language itself is a mythology deprived of its vitality, a bloodless mythology so to speak, which…

— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen.

— El Greco

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

— Margaret Atwood

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“One finds the same basic mythological themes in all the religions of the world, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated, from the…

— Joseph Campbell

“Classical mythology has been so influential upon Western culture that everyone who is alive to the art,culture,politics, and languages of today encounters it.”

— Helen Morales

“The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and…

— Henry David Thoreau

A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

“This book aims to capture, and explore, the outrageousness, inventiveness, and sheer fun that characterize classical mythology. But it is also born of the…

— Helen Morales

No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly…

— Plato