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“The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
“Anytime one tries to take fragments of one's personal mythology and make them understandable to the whole world, one reaches back to the past.… — Assotto Saint Copy Share Image
“I love dreams. I know enough about them to know that dream logic is no story logic, and that you can rarely bring a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“While I slept you stood in the colorful night market with pyramids of bright fruit piled high Where those who loved you, rushing back… — Brenda Hillman Copy Share Image
“Some things die after they born, others born after they die. myths are public dreams, dreams are privet myths...” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The food I eat in my imagination is more powerful and particular than what I consume in reality, just as a dream feels very… — Kyung Ran Jo Copy Share Image
“I woke, remembering a dream from the night before. Pictures of frightened children lingered in my mind as I approached them with a hunger… — Millicent Ashby Copy Share Image
“Heaven and hell are within us, and all the gods are within us. This is the great realization of the Upanishads of India in… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“We have looked for myths that include us in great novels, music, the latest comic book, or even some stupid advertising campaign. We'll look… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
“People didn't realize it, but they needed myths to survive, just as much now as when their forebears were alive. Perhaps more. Mythology embodied… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
“Title: Blue Light Lounge Sutra For The Performance Poets At Harold Park Hotel the need gotta be so deep words can't answer simple questions all night long notes stumble off the tongue & color the air indigo so deep fragments of gut & flesh cling to the song you gotta get into it so deep salt crystalizes on eyelashes the… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share
“Foolhearted mindreader, help us see how the heart begs, how fangs of opprobrium possess our eyes.” — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
Whoever said men hit harder when women are around, is right. Word for word, we beat the love out of each other. — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
“In the old days, the general's ribbons / & medals rainbowed across his chest, / & if he were interrogating himself, / by now,… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
Blue is the insides of something mysterious and lonely. I'd look at fish and birds, thinking the sky and water colored them. The first abyss is blue. An artist must go beyond the mercy of satin or water-from a gutty hue to that which is close to royal purple. All seasons and blossoms inbetween. Lavender. Theatrical and outrageous electric. Almost… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share
“The Way the Cards Fall " Why did you stay away so long? I’ve buried another husband, since I last saw you holding to the horizon. I hear where you now live it snows year-round. The pear & apple trees have even missed you– dead branches scattered about like war. Come closer, my eyes have grown night-dim. Across the field… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share
Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ...… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
I've just been away for a week, and I dropped my BlackBerry in the sea while I was messing around with the kids, so… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
I don't text, I don't have a Blackberry. Literally, I just have a cell phone that I haven't programmed and the whole Bluetooth. No.… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
All of the people who are using their BlackBerries or their iPhones, Facebook, all of the people who are sitting in cafes and hotels… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
After the last shovel of dirt was patted in place, I sat down and let my mind drift back through the years. I thought… — Wilson Rawls Copy Share Image
BLACKBERRY. Also know as "Crackberry" for it's addictive qualities. It is the modern girl's weapon. It allow her to bid on ebay while walking… — Nina Garcia Copy Share Image
I like to talk to people. I've got one assistant, one Blackberry. That's my overhead. I don't text that much or email. I like… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
I used to make fun of my friends who had BlackBerries. And I know that the expression CrackBerry has been going around, but now… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks very prickly, a penalty they earn for knowing the black art of blackberry-making; and as I stand among them lifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest berries fall almost unbidden to my tongue, as words sometimes do,… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share
I wish I could [keep a journal]. I have a lot of journals with one page half written in. I sometimes will write myself… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image