Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity of a

For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.

There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call a terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that once structured society. They can be detected all around us. You can select any of these fragments that activate your imagination for your own use. Let it help shape your own relationship to the unconscious system out of which these symbols have come.

There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you’re on the wrong wall.

I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize

The unfolding through time of all things from one is the simple message, finally, of every one of the creation myths reproduced in the pages of these volumes-including that of our contemporary biological view, which becomes an effective mythic image the moment we recognize its own inner mystery. By the same magic, every god that is dead can be conjured again to life, as any fragment of rock from a hillside, set respectfully in a garden, will arrest the eye.

How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.