Fairy Quote by William Collins Download Open image “By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung.” — William Collins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fairy Hands Rung Sung Unseen
“Few humans see fairies or hear their music, but many find fairy rings of dark grass, scattered with toadstools, left by their dancing feet.” — Judy Allen Copy Share Image
Fairy folk a-listening Hear the seed sprout in the spring, And for music to their dance Hear the hedgerows wake from trance, Sap that… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Everyone's life is a fairy tale writen by God's fingers” — llHans Christian Anderson Copy Share Image
“Every person’s life is a fairytale written by God’s fingers.” — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
“It may be laid down as a general rule that if a man begins to sing, no one will take any notice of his song except his fellow human beings. This is true even if his song is surpassingly beautiful. Other men may be in raptures at his skill, but the rest of creation is, by and large, unmoved. Perhaps… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share
Goblets they carved there for themselves And harps of gold; where no man delves There lay they long, and many a song Was sung… — JRR Tolkien Copy Share Image
Deaf folk hear the fairies However soft their song; 'Tis we who lose the honey sound Amid the clamor all around That beats the… — Rose Fyleman Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry. — Max Luthi Copy Share Image
“If you see a fairy ring In a field of grass, Very lightly step around, Tiptoe as you pass; Last night fairies frolicked there,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
At Halloween, when fairy sprites Perform their mystic gambols, When ilka witch her neebour greets, On their nocturnal rambles; When elves at midnight-hour are… — Janet Little Copy Share Image
“It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts from the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! — William Collins Copy Share Image
When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry. — William Collins Copy Share Image
I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more… — William Collins Copy Share Image
Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing. — William Collins Copy Share Image
Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead. — William Collins Copy Share Image
“Any book without a mistake in it has had too much money spent on it.” — William Collins Copy Share Image
Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath. — William Collins Copy Share Image
I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's. But I… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature. — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairy lands of delight. It roars as… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
One of the first houses we lived in was like out of a fairy story. We had a stream that ran through our garden,… — Emilia Clarke Copy Share Image
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe are reborn… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
In his anti-Darwinian book... (and eponymously named The Neck of the Giraffe ), Francis Hitching tells the story... "The need to survive by reaching… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
I grew up watching monster movies and horror movies, which I felt were like fairy tales and I think this always spoke to me.… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
