“Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.”

“The truths embodied in historical stories are thus not absolute or universal, but relative to the cultural context in which they are made.”

“There was something about words and music together that allowed people to get nearest to honest truth about what was most difficult to say. Paradoxically, only through the essential instantaneity of music could you approach its eternal pertinence.”

“The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.”

“Man can embody the truth but he cannot know it.”

“A stubborn refusal of the conditions of 20th Century 'reality', surrealism has denied intransigently and consistently that modern man can live without a sense of wonder at the world that was once embodied in myth. In approaching literature, it has aimed at restoring to the word its magical qualities. And at giving back to language the elemental power it once had within society. This determinism lies at the heart of the surrealist attitude and distinguishes it radically from the modernism which took shape contemporaneously with it.”