For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
As this world becomes increasingly ugly, callous and materialistic it needs to be reminded that the old fairy stories are rooted in… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“In another chapter I have told you how in the year 800 a German chieftain had become a Roman Emperor. Now in… — Hendrik Van Loon Copy Share Image
“Now fairy stories are at risk too, like the forests. Padraic Column has suggested that artificial lighting dealt them a mortal wound:… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
“I believe that the great stretches of forests in northern Europe, with their constant seasonal changes, their restricted views, their astonish biological… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
Have you ever seen a child sitting on its mother’s knee listening to fairy stories? As long as the child is told… — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
“That girl has been listening,” she said. The culprit snatched up her brush, and scrambled to her feet. She caught at the… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“Among those who still have enough wisdom not to think fairy-stories are pernicious, the common opinion seems to be that there is… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
