Myth deals in false universals, to dull the pain of particular circumstances.

-Carter, Angela Olive
  The Sadeian Woman,'Polemical Preface'.

O Sleepless as the river under thee, Vaulting the sea, the prairies'dreaming sod, Unto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend And of the curveship lend a myth to God.

-Crane, (Harold) Hart
  'To Brooklyn Bridge', in The Dial,  Jun.

Our Meistersinger, thou set breath in steel; And it was thou who on the boldest heel Stood up and flung the span on even wing Of that great Bridge, our Myth, whereof I sing.

-Crane, (Harold) Hart
  On Whitman and Brooklyn Bridge. The Bridge,'Cape Hatteras'.

To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofaras we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.

-Fiedler, Leslie A(aron)
  'Cross the BorderöClose  the Gap', in Playboy, Dec.

La courtisane est un mythe. Jamais une femme n'a invente¤   une de¤ b auche. The courtesan is a myth. No woman has ever invented any new sensual pleasure.

-Flaubert, Gustave
  Letter to Mme Louise Colet,  Aug.

Fromthefirst place of liquid darkness, within thesecond place of air and light, I set down the following record with itsmixture of fact and truths and memories oftruths and its direction always toward theThird Place, where the starting point is myth.

-Frame,Janet Paterson also known as Jean PatersonFrame
  To the Is-land, ch.1,'In the Second Place'.

It's a myth that if you're liked by only four people it must be good. It might also be very bad: they might be your mother, your brother, your uncle and your aunt.

-Hockney, David
  David Hockney.

History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.

-Miller, Henry Valentine
  Plexus, ch.12.

the thing I came for: the wreck and not the story of the wreck the thing itself and not the myth.

-Rich, Adrienne Cecile
  Diving into theWreck,'Diving into theWreck'.

No blazoned banner we unfoldö One charge alone we give to youth, Against the sceptred myth to hold, The golden heresy of truth.

-Russell, GeorgeWilliam pseudonym  Ó
'On Behalf of Some Irishmen not Followers ofTradition'.

The inscrutability of the East is, indeed, I believe a myth† The ordinary inhabitant is incomprehensible merely to people who never trouble to have anything much to do with them.

-Stark, Dame Freya Madeleine
  TheJourney's Echo.

There was a muddy centre before we breathed There was a myth before the myth began, Venerable and articulate and complete.

-Stevens,Wallace
  NotesToward A Supreme Fiction,'It Must BeAbstract'.

Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis.By myth, I mean a poetic, dramatic expression of a hidden truth; and in placing this emphasis, I do not intend to put into question the scientific validity of psychoanalysis.

-Thomas, D(onald) M(itchell)
TheWhite Hotel, author's note.

The poem†is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we seeöit is, rather, a light by which we may seeöand what we see is life.

-Warren, Robert Penn
  In the Saturday Review, 22 Mar.