Though Philosophers Like To Define Poetry As

When I'm Killed, Don't Think Of Me Buried There In Cambrin Wood, Nor As In Zion Think Of Me With The Intolerable Good. And There's One Thing That I Know Well, I'm Damned If I'll Be Damned To Hell!

Mythology Is The Study Of Whatever Religious Or Heroic Legends Are So Foreign To A Student's Experience That He Cannot Believe Them To Be True. . . . Myth Has Two Main Functions. The First Is To Answer The Sort Of Awkward Questions That Children Ask, Such As: 'who Made The World? How Will It End? Who Was The First Man? Where Do Souls Go After Death?'. . . . The Second Function Of Myth Is To Justify An Existing Social System And Account For Traditional Rites And Customs.

To Know Only One Thing Well Is To Have A Barbaric Mind: Civilization Implies The Graceful Relation Of All Varieties Of Experience To A Central Humane System Of Thought. The Present Age Is Peculiarly Barbaric: Introduce, Say, A Hebrew Scholar To An Ichthyologist Or An Authority On Danish Place Names And The Pair Of Them Would Have No Single Topic In Common But The Weather Or The War (if There Happened To Be A War In Progress, Which Is Usual In This Barbaric Age).

A Perfect Poem Is Impossible. Once It Had Been Written, The World Would End. Immature Poets Imitate; Mature Poets Steal.

To Recommend A Monarchy On Account Of The Prosperity It Gives The Provinces Seems To Me Like Recommending That A Man Should Have Liberty To Treat His Children As Slaves, If At The Same Time He Treats His Slaves With Reasonable Consideration.