Marianne Moore Quotes

We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.

I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.

A myth is more powerful - and more lasting - than reality.

I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

What I love most about icons is finding out what's behind them, exploring the price of their power.

There is art and beauty and power in the primal images of fantasy.

We often find far more power in a symbol than in something that is an an actuality.

I believe I'm a unicorn. Unicorns are very magical and powerful and strong.

The dragon is a very consistent symbol of secret satellite iconography and signals intelligence satellites.

St. Cyril of Jerusalem, in instructing catechumens, wrote: “The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour you. We go to the Father of Souls, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon.” No matter what form the dragon may take, it is of this mysterious passage past him, or into his jaws, that stories of any depth will always be concerned to tell, and this being the case, it requires considerable courage at any time, in any country, not to turn away from the storyteller.

she told me she'd be a phoenix." The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. "They don't really exist." "She said that depends on whether or not there's someone who can see them.

Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?

We have demythologized prematurely, that we've actually lost the vocabulary for discussing reality at its largest scales. The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.

I am interested in reconstructing symbols. It's about connecting with an older knowledge and trying to discover continuities in why we search for heaven.

When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.

And Loplop, bird superior, has transformed himself into flesh without flesh and will dwell among us.

Notes for a ballet, The Spell: ... Suddenly Sigmund hears the flutter of wings, and a group of wild swans flies across the moon ... Sigmund is astounded to see that their leader is part swan and part woman - unfortunately, divided lengthwise. She enchants Sigmund, who is careful not to make any poultry jokes.

it was easier to believe in the Dragon and less easy to believe in Thorin in these wild parts

To harden the earth the rocks took charge: instantly they grew wings: the rocks that soared: the survivors flew up the lightning bolt, screamed in the night, a watermark, a violet sword, a meteor. The succulent sky had not only clouds, not only space smelling of oxygen, but an earthly stone flashing here and there changed into a dove, changed into a bell, into immensity, into a piercing wind: into a phosphorescent arrow, into salt of the sky.

Like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room.

Some poems are like the Centaurs--a mingling of man and beast, and begotten of Ixion on a cloud.

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

Earth and sea merged, the sea tossed itself in the air in a fantastic dance, into the shapes of men and horses and tattered banners. I stood in the lee of an overhanging rock and thought of many things.

Myth is the nothing that is all.