Scythe/mythology

Famous quotes containing the words scythe and/or mythology:

“The scythe that advances forever and never needs whetting.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.... Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)