Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimæras dire. — Visions

"The peoples prayer, the glad diviners theme! The young mens vision, and the old mens dream!"

"Circa beatitudinem perfectam, quæ in Dei visione consistit."

"The vision you saw was real, but what you saw in the vision wasn’t."

"Myth is a story of a vision; it is a presentation of that vision told in terms of the vision’s symbols, characters, chronology, and import. It is a vehicle of transmission, of sharing, of renewal, and as such plays an integral part in the ongoing psychic life of a people."

"Such are the common people of the soul, Of whom the stars write not in their bright scroll. These, when the sunshine at the noontide makes Golden confusion in the forest brakes, See no sweet shadows gliding o’er the grass, Which seems to fill with wild flowers as they pass ; These, from the twilight music of the fount Ask not its secret and its sweet account ; These never seek to read the chronicle Which hides within the hyacinth’s dim-lit bell: They know not of the poetry which lies Upon the summer rose’s languid eyes; They have no spiritual visitings elysian, They dream no dreamings, and they see no vision."

"O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Livd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only."