... whatever is not happening now is unimportant; it is merely curious.

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

In religion is much tiredness of people, a giving over of their doing to Someone Else.

... whatever is not happening now is unimportant; it is merely curious.

rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity.

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

Myth is a tale once believed as truth; believed, it is not myth, but religion. A tale once religiously believed that has come to be called a myth is something of religion corrupted with disbelief. What are beliefs for some societies but myths for others cannot fill spiritual vacancies in the life of those others.