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Quote by Wallace Stevens
All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence. – Wallace Stevens

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Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words. – Italo Calvino

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I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in mens minds without their being aware of the fact. – Claude Levi-Strauss

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He said myths and mythology wasnt to give meaning to life but to give us an experience of life, an experience of vitality in being alive. – Joseph Campbell

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One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else. – Mrs. Humphrey Ward

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