Popularity isn't just something that happens. You have to give something in exchange for it, and that's the dangerous part of the process.
Robert BringhurstPoetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry.
Robert BringhurstThe claim that myth is always a narrative spin-off of ritual; the claim that myth is the projection of human anxieties onto a cosmological scrim; the claim that myths are invented to give sanction to human predilections and institutions... These are ways of trivializing a mode of thought that has served humanity well for a very long time.
Robert Bringhurst