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Quotes from Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins — P. L. Travers

1899–1996 Australia

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These men — Yeats, James Stephens, and the rest — had aristocratic minds. For them, the world was not fragmented. An idea did not suddenly grow … all alone and separate.

Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins (2007)

The true fairytales … come straight out of myth; they are, as it were, minuscule reaffirmation of myths, or perhaps the myth made accessible to the local folky mind.

Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins (2007)

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