789 Quotes About Mythology

My brother is the soft one. He’ll give you sunshine and sonnets. But me? I’ll use the moonshine to track you by night, and my bow and arrow to pierce your heart, and take your life.

The landscape of Singapore is different now. Modern buildings scratch the skyline with a pomp and display that wasn't there in days gone by. Old and new come together to create a modern Singapore that was still in the process of being made as I grew up.

I listened and did not speak. Achilles' eyes were bright in the firelight, his face drawn sharply by the flickering shadows. I would know it in dark or disguise, I told myself. I would know it even in madness.

Can the sun find its match in anything but the moon? Can the heavens lose interest in the earth?" Hades pulled away from her and stroked her cheek. "Can death exist without life?

You can have mythic allusions in houses with flat roofs, and you can also play on the roof.

The realm of the gods is a forgotten dimension of the world we know. And the exploration of that dimension, either willingly or unwillingly, is the whole sense of the deed of the hero. The values and distinctions that in normal life seem important disappear with the terrifying assimilation of the self into what formerly was only otherness.

The God of the Underworld would definitely regret meeting the Goddess of Spring-and she looked forward to that day.

Now they made all secure in the fast black ship,and, setting out the wine bowls all a-brim,they made libation to the gods, the undying, the ever-new,most of all to the grey-eyed daughter of Zeus.And the prow sheared through the night into the dawn.(Translation by Robert Fitzgerald 1961)

...but the beauty of the youngest was so wonderful that the poverty of language is unable to express its due praise.