Western Tradition Quotes

“Throughout their lives W.B. Yeats and C.G. Jung sought out precedents for, and affinities with, their visionary — their daimonic — standpoints. Between them they uncovered and studied just about every major proponent of our tradition. This is not surprising, because it is a feature of the tradition that it threads together all who discover it, to form a series of historical links. The alchemists called it the Aurea Catena, the Golden Chain; and to grasp one link is to be connected to all the others.”
― Patrick Harpur, Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld

“To be a Catholic writer is to stand at the center of the Western tradition in artistic terms.”
― Dana Gioia

“To be a Catholic writer is to stand at the center of the Western tradition in artistic terms. *”
― Dana Gioia, The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays