When I first encountered the poems of Jon Woodward, I was stunned into the state that is my life's joy-I was in the presence of the inimitable. Uncanny Valley extends that experience-almost into another dimension. These apocalyptic, pixilated poems forge a mythology of our ravaged culture, one that might have been written in the future. If you want poetry to give you a persimmon on a plate, look elsewhere; if you want to know what happens when seven trees fall on the highway and the story is told by a stutterer, this is the book, and it could only have been written by Woodward.
Actually, I love mythology. When I was a kid I was obsessed with myth and I wanted to be a mythologist when I grew up. Then I realized I really just like stories.
Don't buy into the corporate mythology that's been rammed down our throats for all these years.
Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted.
Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education.
Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind.
The importance of the End of time is as. . . a psychological event. . . When you have seen the radiance of eternity through all the forms of time. . . and it is the function of art to make that visible to you. . . then you have really have ended life in the world as it is lived by those who only think only in the historical, concretizing terms. This is the function of mythology.
Nature, or the world, or reality, is what mythology is all about.
Darth Maul dies and it's okay. And maybe he'll be picked up later and another actor will play him and that's okay. However if they call me up and they need him for this or that and they want me to play him, then that's okay too. I do actually love this character. I feel strongly about him. I feel badly for him and if there's anything more I can contribute to him or the larger Star Wars mythology I will continue to do so and if my time has come then I will watch as a fan the way I have since I was born.
I think people should read fairy tales, because were hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.
Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told.
Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
Mythology helps you to identify the mysteries of the energies pouring through you. Therein lies your eternity.
One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist
He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men
A lot of the mythology that sprung up around Haile Selassie, it's not like something he asked for, having people deify him. That's pretty heavy. I don't know what you do in that situation.
It is the crucifixion that distinguishes the new message from the mythologies of all other peoples.
I've talked to dozens of Chicagoans who will only go off the record in talking about the manufactured mythology.
Research is always the best part. As we dug deeper into the history and mythology behind each of the hallows, we discovered more and more stories - some of them deserving of novels in themselves.