"I’d like to see that Delphic festival. Greece is the third in order of European nations which I would enjoy visiting— England & Italy being the other two. Greece contains some remarkable survivals of classic myth among the peasantry—I heard a highly illuminating lecture on the subject a year ago by Sir Rennell Rodd, a lifelong student of neo-Hellenic folklore. Much remains to be excavated in Greece—indeed, it is possible that art will receive a new stimulus from what archaeolgy will unearth during the next 10 or 20 years."
(Episle to Elizabeth Toldridge, 15-04-1929)
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Delphic_Festival ]
"Emotionally, I endorse religion, and people the fields and streams and groves with the Grecian deities and local spirits of old—for at heart I am a pantheistic pagan of the old
tradition which Christianity has never reached. But when I start thinking I throw off emotion as excess baggage, and settle down to the prosaic and exact task of seeing simply what is, or probably is, and what isn’t, or probably isn’t. I love to dream, but I never try to dream and think at the same time."
(Epistle to Woodburn Harris, 01-03-1929)
"The cringing Semitic slave-cult of Christianity became thrust upon our virile, ebullient Western stock through a series of grotesque historic accidents."
(Selected Letters, III, p. 45)
"If a Christian tell me he has felt the reality of his Jesus or Jahveh, I can reply that I have seen hoofed Pan and the sisters of the Hesperian Phaethusa...My pompous book called "Poemata Minora", written when I was eleven, was dedicated "To the Gods, Heroes and Ideals of the Ancients", and harped in disillusioned, world-weary tones on the sorrow of the pagan robbed of his antique pantheon...I was, and still am, pagan to the core."
(February 1922)
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