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Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word "myth" only for stories we ourselves cannot believe.

Adam Kirsch
Believe, Reality, Stories
"The Mystic Word" by Adam Kirsch, www.newyorker.com. October 9, 2006.
Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word myth only for stories we ourselves cannot believe.