“The most profound enchantment for the collector is the locking of individual items within a magic circle in which they are fixed… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
When the object is perceived as particular and unique and not merely the member of a family, when it appears independent of… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“The bridge between the words glamour and grammar is magic. According to the OED, glamour evolved through an ancient association between learning… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
I suppose there's something to be said for the sheer reinforcement of our beliefs, but really I think poetry is more useful… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I thought, "Wow, English is like magic." It not only shattered my voice, it changed me physiologically. I believed this for months… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
Assuming I survive our hunt for the Horcruxes, I’ll find Mum and Dad and lift the enchantment. If I don’t – well,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Purple, Wonder, majesty, and enchantment doesn't even begin to cover the feelings that I had the first time that I met you… — Ottilie Weber Copy Share Image
Enchantment can be done with writing but I think enchantment is basically a prospective or an operating system for life. That you… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“We approach our lives on different trajectories, each of us spinning in our own separate, shining orbits. What gives this life its… — Richard Wagamese Copy Share Image
One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
In music everything is prolonged, everything is edified, and when the enchantment has ceased, we are still bathed in its clarity; solitude… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
It would be a miracle of God if it happened. I know it... If God wills it, the summer rains will fill… — Paul Torday Copy Share Image
As the years go by, he returns to this invisible world rather than to earth for peace and solace. There also he… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
For Poesy alone can tell her dreams, With the fine spell of words alone can save Imagination from the sable charm And… — John Keats Copy Share Image
I don’t have the time to devote to circles or covens. I have to fit things in when and where I can,… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my first real introduction into… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“It's the pausing and the stopping, perhaps going backward and losing some time, not being able to do everything we're supposed to… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
The spectacle we find in true religions has as its purpose enchantment, not entertainment. The distinction is critical. By endowing things with… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I have seen the mystics play there Once or twice but I knew they had a reason Enchantment plays it's cards all… — Jon Anderson Copy Share Image
It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Perhaps this is how girls fall -- not in some crime of enchantment at the hands of a wicked ne'er-do-well, a grand… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“We are put together in such a way that although we can be pushed and pulled and drowsied by flickering images, we… — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
In the relationship of friends: "Each gives to the other, and each receives, and the fruit of the intercourse is more than… — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
Lara walked along the tracks following a path worn by pilgrims and then turned into the fields. Here she stopped and, closing… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
The enchantment of the sky, ever changing beauty almost ignored. Beyond words, without fixed form, not to be understood, or stated. It… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
Although the stories are very present in my book, and very present in my mind, what I was most interested in was… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
This is a city of absolute enchantment in the literal sense of the word. It loosens all the bonds binding the traveller… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We live under the power of Modern Consciousness, which means that we are obsessed with progress. Wherever you are is not good… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
“All the terms used in the science books, 'law,' 'necessity,' 'order,' 'tendency,' and so on, are really unintellectual … The only words… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
