Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. The function of the artist is the mythologization o… - Joseph Campbell

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

"Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something, it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out." ~ Joseph Campbell

A mythological image that has to be explained to the brain is not working.

The poet Yeats felt we were living in the last of a great Christian cycle. His poem “The Second Coming” says, “Turning and turning in the widening gyre/The falcon cannot hear the falconer;/Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,/The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/The ceremony of innocence is drowned.