Pastoral Resources

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin.

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.

The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

I am attracted to myths.

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.