If What You Write Is True, It

There Can Be No Literary Equivalent To Truth.

To Tell One Comprehensive Story Of How It Has Happened That What Is Is, One Which Shall Hold True, Come What May, Now-after - A Story That Whatever Comes Shall Perfectly Continue Or Confirm: Such Is The Ideal Motive Of Religions.

To A Poet The Mere Making Of A Poem Can Seem To Solve The Problem Of Truth…but Only A Problem Of Art Is Solved In Poetry.

Until The Missing Story Of Ourselves Is Told, Nothing Besides Told Can Suffice Us: We Shall Go On Quietly Craving It.

Myth Is A Tale Once Believed As Truth; Believed, It Is Not Myth, But Religion. A Tale Once Religiously Believed That Has Come To Be Called A Myth Is Something Of Religion Corrupted With Disbelief. What Are Beliefs For Some Societies But Myths For Others Cannot Fill Spiritual Vacancies In The Life Of Those Others.