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> [“Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are as enormous as life itself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-esolen/fairy-tales-and-folk-tales-are-for-children-and-childlike-people-not/)

[Anthony Esolen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-esolen/)

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## More by Anthony Esolen

> [“Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are as enormous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-esolen/fairy-tales-and-folk-tales-are-for-children-and-childlike-people-not/)

[Anthony Esolen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-esolen/)

> [“The past is dangerous, not least because it cannot go away. It is simply there , never to change, and in its constancy it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-esolen/the-past-is-dangerous-not-least-because-it-cannot-go-away-it-is/)

[Anthony Esolen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-esolen/)

> [“How silly were the idolaters of old, who knelt before the clumsy wooden figurines of their own making! We are wiser now. We kneel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-esolen/how-silly-were-the-idolaters-of-old-who-knelt-before-the-clumsy/)

[Anthony Esolen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-esolen/)

> [“...friendship stands as a small affront to the total control of all things by mass entertainment and mass media and mass education and mass…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-esolen/friendship-stands-as-a-small-affront-to-the-total-control-of-all/)

[Anthony Esolen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-esolen/)

> [“Man is not only that creature that forges tools, that reasons, and that walks upright. Man is the creature that looks up. Man praises.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-esolen/man-is-not-only-that-creature-that-forges-tools-that-reasons-and-that/)

[Anthony Esolen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-esolen/)

> [“We think that mercy is a sweeter and easier thing than justice, but it is not so; for justice takes us as we are,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-esolen/we-think-that-mercy-is-a-sweeter-and-easier-thing-than-justice-but-it/)

[Anthony Esolen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-esolen/)

> [“The lie rushes in to fill up the void left by truth in retreat. When people lose their faith in God, for example they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-esolen/the-lie-rushes-in-to-fill-up-the-void-left-by-truth-in-retreat-when/)

[Anthony Esolen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-esolen/)

> [“For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no idea what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-esolen/for-those-of-you-who-may-be-homeschooled-high-school-is-that-four/)

[Anthony Esolen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-esolen/)

> [“It's rather the possibility of friendship, unencumbered by feelings of attraction or shyness; the possibility of working on the same wavelength, as it were,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-esolen/it-s-rather-the-possibility-of-friendship-unencumbered-by-feelings-of/)

[Anthony Esolen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-esolen/)

> [“For in those days I had no idea that many of the greatest books are like a forest, and that the best way to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-esolen/for-in-those-days-i-had-no-idea-that-many-of-the-greatest-books-are/)

[Anthony Esolen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-esolen/)

> [ “And those characters \[in a fairy tale\] dwell in a moral world, whose laws are as clear as the law of gravity. That too… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-esolen/and-those-characters-in-a-fairy-tale-dwell-in-a-moral-world-whose/)

[Anthony Esolen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-esolen/)

> [“To be free is not to live in no place and at no time but to live in one place as in the shadow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-esolen/to-be-free-is-not-to-live-in-no-place-and-at-no-time-but-to-live-in/)

[Anthony Esolen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-esolen/)

> [“The love of the married man and woman is not a private romance, but a recapitulation of the love that brought them into being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-esolen/the-love-of-the-married-man-and-woman-is-not-a-private-romance-but-a/)

[Anthony Esolen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-esolen/)

> [“The imagination opens out not principally to what it knows and finds familiar, but to what it does not know, what it finds strange,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-esolen/the-imagination-opens-out-not-principally-to-what-it-knows-and-finds/)

[Anthony Esolen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-esolen/)

> [“Many of the greatest books are like a forest. “The best way to get to know them is to wander right into the middle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-esolen/many-of-the-greatest-books-are-like-a-forest-the-best-way-to-get-to/)

[Anthony Esolen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-esolen/)

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