“The imagination opens out not principally to what it knows and finds familiar, but to what it does not know, what it finds strange, half hidden, robed with inaccessible light. The familiar too can be an object of wonder, but… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are as enormous… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
“The past is dangerous, not least because it cannot go away. It is simply there , never to change, and in its constancy it reflects the eternity of God. It presents to the young mind a vast field of fascination, of war and peace, loyalty and treason, invention and folly, bitter twists of fate and sweet poetic justice. When that… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share
“How silly were the idolaters of old, who knelt before the clumsy wooden figurines of their own making! We are wiser now. We kneel… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
“...friendship stands as a small affront to the total control of all things by mass entertainment and mass media and mass education and mass politics. For wherever such friendships persist, there persists the possibility of imaginative leaps that threaten the comfort of the banal. For you look at the friend and you remember the past, and treasure it. You love… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share
“Man is not only that creature that forges tools, that reasons, and that walks upright. Man is the creature that looks up. Man praises.” — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
“We think that mercy is a sweeter and easier thing than justice, but it is not so; for justice takes us as we are,… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
“The lie rushes in to fill up the void left by truth in retreat. When people lose their faith in God, for example they… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
“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… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
“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,… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
“For in those days I had no idea that many of the greatest books are like a forest, and that the best way to… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
“And those characters [in a fairy tale] dwell in a moral world, whose laws are as clear as the law of gravity. That too… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
“To be free is not to live in no place and at no time but to live in one place as in the shadow… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
![“And those characters [in a fairy tale] dwell in a moral world, whose laws are as clear as the law of gravity. That too is a great advantage of the folk tale. It is not a failure of imagination to see the sky blue. It is a failure rather to be weary of its being blue- and not to notice how blue it…” quote by Anthony Esolen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2c4/anthony-esolen-32671_anthony-esolen_and-those-characters-in-a-fairy-tale-dwe_2085690.jpg)
