Enchantment Quotes - Page 6

• Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

  Salman Rushdie

  Tongue, Language, Enough

  Salman Rushdie (2008). “The Enchantress of Florence”, p.75, Random House

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• ...but the enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Eye, Errors, Forever

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• I don’t have the time to devote to circles or covens. I have to fit things in when and where I can, in stolen moments and cups of coffee. Stirring clockwise to conjure. Widdershins to banish. There’s never enough time, and rarely enough caffeine, but I make do with what I have. Besides, cauldrons and pointy hats are overrated. Sometimes I see other customers practicing. Pouring their cream and sugar with studied intent. Stirring with purpose. I add an extra spoonful of sugar to my own coffee for them, to make all of our enchantments sweeter.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Coffee, Circles, Enough Time

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• Stripping the protection wards off the ship was bad enough—it's a strong, strong enchantment, demon-based—but when you fell, I had to put a fast spell on the truck so it wouldn't sink when I lost consciousness. And I will lose consciousness, Alec.

  Cassandra Clare

  Strong, Ships, Consciousness

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.834, Simon and Schuster

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• Perhaps this is how girls fall -- not in some crime of enchantment at the hands of a wicked ne'er-do-well, a grand before and after in which they are innocent victims who have no say in the matter. Perhaps they simply are kissed and want to kiss back. Perhaps they even kiss first. And why should they not?

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Fall, Kissing

  Libba Bray (2007). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.615, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Fall, People, Way

  Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.10, Macmillan

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• I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my first real introduction into classical music. It was totally inspiring to me.

  Nicolas Cage

  Real, Kids, Firsts

  "Nicolas Cage, Single Dad On and Off-Screen". "Parade" Interview, parade.com. March 11, 2009.

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• He’s gone, Harry told himself. He’s gone. He had to keep thinking it as he washed and dressed, as though repetition would dull the shock of it. He’s gone and he’s not coming back. And that was the simple truth of it, Harry knew, because their protective enchantments meant that it would be impossible, once they vacated this spot, for Ron to find them again.

  J. K. Rowling

  Simple, Thinking, Would Be

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• If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child's soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man's wisdom for the child's.

  Johan Huizinga

  Dream, Laughter, Children

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• Without a doubt the sense of beauty does not lie determined in the concreteness of an individual beautiful thing or person. Rather its purpose is much more the enchantment of the soul, for there is nothing physical that is not made with the intent of affecting the soul, and there is no soul that does not intend to dazzle everything physical with its sensations.

  Alexander Lernet-Holenia

  Beautiful, Lying, Soul

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• The delight we experience when we allow ourselves to respond to a fairy tale, the enchantment we feel, comes not from the psychological meaning of the tale (although this contributes to it) but from its literary qualities-the tale itself as a work of art.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Art, Quality, Delight

  Bruno Bettelheim (1976). “The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales”, Vintage

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• Perfume opens endless horizons. It appeals both to the senses and to the imagination. Like an enchantment, it works on an instinctive level and at the same time is extremely subtle.

  Nino Cerruti

  Imagination, Horizon, Levels

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• One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one of the most intoxicating features of poetry. It creates expectations, which can be fulfilled or frustrated. It can create a sense of boredom and complacency, but it can also incite enchantment and inspire bliss.

  Edward Hirsch

  Expectations, Boredom, Inspire

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• Banish (the onion) from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Its presence lends color and enchantment to the most modest dish; its absence reduces the rarest delicacy to hopeless insipidity, and dinner to despair.

  Elizabeth Robins Pennell

  Food, Color, Vegetables

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• Everything a cat is and does physically is to me beautiful, lovely, stimulating, soothing, attractive and an enchantment.

  Paul Gallico

  Beautiful, Cat, Lovely

  Paul Gallico (1972). “Honorable Cat”, Three Rivers Press (CA)

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• We were born with a natural tendency to focus on love. Our imaginations were creative and flourishing, and we knew how to use them. We were connected to a richer world, a world full of enchantment and a sense of the miraculous. What happened?

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Creativity, Imagination

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• Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a region of enchantment.

  Washington Irving

  Business, Reality, Romance

  Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, John Holmes Agnew, Kinahan Cornwallis, Washington Irving (1840). “The Knickerbocker: Or, New York Monthly Magazine”, p.304

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• He it is, the innermost one, who awakens my being with his deep hidden touches. He it is who puts his enchantment upon these eyes and joyfully plays on the chords of my heart in varied cadence of pleasure and pain.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Pain, Heart, Eye

  Rabindranath Tagore, General Press (2014). “Gitanjali”, p.72, GENERAL PRESS

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• In the relationship of friends: "Each gives to the other, and each receives, and the fruit of the intercourse is more than either in himself possesses. Every individual relationship has contact with a universal. To reach out to the fuller life of love is a divine enchantment, because it leads to more than itself, and is the open door into the mystery of life".

  Hugh Black

  Real, Love Is, Doors

  Hugh Black (1903). “The Fruits of Friendship”

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• We all make mistakes, we all have fears, and we all have weaknesses. Behind all that is our essential self. When our essential self has made contact with another, the light is dazzling and would fill the universe. The challenge of enchantment is to remain faithful to that light, to believe in it when it is not so apparent. Then that light becomes an incandescent glow and it wraps itself around everything.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mistake, Believe, Light

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jan 15, 2015

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• Imagination, realm of enchantment!- which the most beneficent of beings bestowed upon man to console him for reality- I must quit you now.

  Xavier de Maistre

  Reality, Men, Imagination

  Xavier de Maistre, Stephen Sartarelli (1994). “Voyage Around My Room: Selected Works of Xavier DeMaistre”, p.81, New Directions Publishing

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• Nothing is ever truly gone... Not for me, nor for any human being. We can only go forward, unless we are guests in some enchantment that is not is ours. We are condemned to an endless present, and we can never go back-the source of all our joy, and all our sorrow." -Hem at Zelika's grave

  Alison Croggon

  Joy, Sorrow, Gone

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• Like the sorcerer of old, the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action and turning the living into silent statues so long as the enchantment lasts. The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces as the behavior it prevents — the talks, the games, the family festivities and arguments.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Children, Lying, Communication

  "Two worlds of childhood: U.S. and U.S.S.R".

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• Relief work does not consist entirely in wearisome appeals ... it has its moments of enchantment, its adventures, its unexpected vistas into new worlds

  Eglantyne Jebb

  Adventure, Doe, Relief

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• Although the stories are very present in my book, and very present in my mind, what I was most interested in was the question of why it had attracted such a following in the 18th Century. It's less mysterious that it attracted a following in the Romantic period, and in the 19th Century, but the early 18th Century when the Rationalists fell in love with it...that was mysterious. What I wanted to look at was the forms of enchantment.

  Marina Warner

  Book, Mind, Looks

  Source: therumpus.net

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