Captured Quote by Wole Soyinka

Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously…

— Jack Zipes

“Recounting the narrative of our personal story in a methodical and chronological manner helps us see our life in a historical perspective. Telling our…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on.

— Anne Rice

I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious…

— Anne Rice

“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

I'm interested in authentic experience and the essence of that creative place, and where those myths begin and where they become real on any…

— Chris Robinson

I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree…

— Wole Soyinka

I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore. I find that, you know, stories people told each other thousands of…

— Cassandra Clare

Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don't have to figure out our own personal journey in…

— Fred Van Lente

“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

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

— Joseph Campbell

There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call the terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems…

— Joseph Campbell