We have demythologized prematurely, that we've actually lost the vocabulary for discussing reality at its largest scales. The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.
Marilynne RobinsonFaith takes a great many forms, suited to a variety of sensibilities, and mine happens to suit me very well.
Marilynne RobinsonThe best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out.
Marilynne RobinsonAnd there is no living creature, though the whims of eons had put its eyes on boggling stalks and clamped it in a carapace, diminished it to a pinpoint and given it a taste for mud and stuck it down a well or hid it under a stone, but that creature will live on if it can.
Marilynne Robinson