The significance of a myth is not easily to be pinned on paper by analytical reasoning.
"Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" (1936), p. 14
Контексте: The significance of a myth is not easily to be pinned on paper by analytical reasoning. It is at its best when it is presented by a poet who feels rather than makes explicit what his theme portends; who presents it incarnate in the world of history and geography, as our poet has done. Its defender is thus at a disadvantage: unless he is careful, and speaks in parables, he will kill what he is studying by vivisection, and he will be left with a formal or mechanical allegory, and what is more, probably with one that will not work. For myth is alive at once and in all its parts, and dies before it can be dissected.
„Когда миф сталкивается с мифом, столкновение бывает весьма реальное.“
«Гарики на каждый день», 1992, Том I
„Творите о себе мифы. Боги начинали только так.“
„Когда сплетни стареют, они становятся мифами.“
„А есть какой-то миф о вас, который вы бы хотели развеять?“
„Всякое рассуждение о любви уничтожает любовь.“
