“Human beings live in their myths. They only endure their realities.”
“Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word 'myth' only for stories we ourselves cannot believe.”
“A too often forgotten truth is that you can live through actual events of history and completely miss the underlying reality of what's going. What history misses, the myth clearly expresses. The myth in the hands of a genius give us a clear picture of the inner import of life itself.”
“Your endurance is strongly influenced byyour fundamental myth about the fighting.”
“Josiah said that only humans had to endure anything, because only humans resisted what they saw outside themselves.”