Psyche & Symbol

A title from Joseph Cambell's extraordinary works on Western mythology. A page for creations of intellect and lands of imagination.

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of --
Wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence.
Hovering there
I've chased the shouting wind along and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up along delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace,
Where never lark, or even eagle flew;
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
-- John Gillespie Magee Jr., "High Flight"

Dead End

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein

Dragon's Pleasures

All thoughts that mould the age begin
Deep down within the primitive soul.
-- James Russell Lowel

Cloudbreaker

A ship is safe in the harbor, but that is not why ships are built.
-- unknown