True Myth

Famous quotes containing the words true and/or myth:

    “Earth in beauty dressed
    Awaits returning spring.
    All true love must die,
    Alter at the best
    Into some lesser thing.
    Prove that I lie.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.”
    —Thomas Mann (1875–1955)