#myth

I have not been nourished by English Literature. . . for the simple reason that I have never found much there in which to rest my heart (or heart and head together). I was brought up in the Classics, and first discovered the sensation of literary pleasure in Homer... I do know Celtic things (many in their original languages Irish and Welsh), and feel for them a certain distaste: largely for their fundamental unreason. They have bright colour, but are like a broken stained glass window reassembled without design. They are in fact ‘mad’. . . but I don’t believe I am... [I] set myself a task, the arrogance of which I fully recognized and trembled at: being precisely to restore to the English an epic tradition and present them with a mythology of their own. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#epic #greek #homer #myth #design

O sleepless as the river under thee, / Vaulting the sea, the prairies' dreaming sod, / Onto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend / And of the curveship lend a myth to God. ↗

— Hart Crane

#dreams

One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#mythology #philosophy #spirituality #art

I ate mythology & dreamt' - Yusef Komunyakaa (Blackberries) ↗

— Yusef Komunyakaa

#dream #myth #mythology #dreams

Myth is a cloud based upon a shadow based upon the movement of the breeze. ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#dreams

The greatest and most blessed thing in the Germanic life is the mythical, sensitive, yet strong, awakening. The fact is that we have again begun to dream our own primal dreams. ↗

— Alfred Rosenberg

#myth #rosenberg #dreams

The Dreaming is always; forever... it's always happening, and us mob, we're part of it, all the time, everywhere, and every-when too. ↗

— Kate Constable

#mythology #young-adult #dreams

Jason woke to a feeling of fear, borne from a dream that he couldn’t remember when waking. But as his mind focused, he found the dream right before him. The half-woman lay perfectly molded against his body, her wings draped down her back. ↗

— Derendrea

#erotic #erotica #new-york-city #paranormal-erotica #paranormal-romance

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. It must be dreamed again. ↗

— Assotto Saint

#haitian-dyaspora #mythology #dreams

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place. ↗

— Angela Carter

#cults #does #emotional #father #first