Quotes About Enchantment

The pale pink light of dawn sparkled on branch and leaf and stone. Every blade of grass was carved from emerald, every drip of water turned to diamond. Flowers and mushrooms alike wore coats of glass. Even the mud puddles had a bright brown sheen. Through the shimmering greenery, the black tents of his brothers were encased in a fine glaze of ice. So there is magic beyond the Wall after all.

Once a man has seen a dragon in flight, let him stay at home and tend his garden in content, for this wide world has no greater wonder.

She was drunk on the magic of the night, giddy with glamour, swept away by beauties she had dreamt of all her life and never dared hope to know.

So there is magic beyond the Wall after all. He found himself thinking of his sisters, perhaps because he'd dreamed of them last night. Sansa would call this an enchantment, and tears would fill her eyes at the wonder of it...

Jakie? czarodziejskie zakl?cie w ruch go wprawia?o. Kto jest zakl?cia tego w?odarzem. Co na tym zyska?, ?e go wy??czy?. Có? to za machina. Jakim cudem w ogóle dzia?a?a. Jak?? nap?dzana iskr?. Wspania?a machina. Akuratnie dostrojona. Iskr? otrzymawszy, do ?ycia si? zerwa?a. Kto iskr? t? zgasi?? (...) Kto by ?mia?. Zniszczy? taki cud.

Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.

La femme séduite est "énamourée". Difficile à regarder. C'est comme un animal. J'essaie de séduire. Puis quand c'est fait, je trouve ridicule la personne séduite. Incapable d'en jouir. Je l'ai rendue idiote, la belle affaire. Tour de cartes. Mais je joue avec mes cartes. Quel drôle de prestidigitateur, qui en veut aux spectateurs de croire, de l'applaudir, qui joue sans jouer, qui souffre de tromper sans tromper. Oui quelle drôle de vie.

The magnolia tree loomed vast over the house, its branches full of white blooms, like a hundred miniature reflections of the moon, and their thick, sweet scent hung over the veranda languorously, the scent that was an enchantment luring you out into the mysterious, moonlit countryside.

Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.

'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

We are under the spell always of what is distant from us. It is not in our nature to desire passionately what is near at hand.

Our hearts were drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see.

In the calm of sweet communion Let thy daily work be done; In the peace of soul-outpouring Care be banished, patience won; And if earth with its enchantments Seek thy spirit to enthrall, Ere thou listen, ere thou answer, Turn to Jesus, tell Him all.

If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchant-ments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.

Things forbidden have a secret charm.

A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!

The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.

según mi experiencia la poesía te habla y te llega a primera vista o no te llegará nunca. Hay un destello de revelación y un destello reflejo de respuesta. Es como el rayo. Como enamorarse.

They were shadows in the dark, cocooned in its secrets, bathed in its silence, enspelled by each other.

yo, nadie especial, supe que él no pertenecía a este mundo; lo supe desde el momento mismo en que puse mis ojos sobre él. Era como esos pájaros –no recuerdo ahora su nombre– que muy de vez en cuando descienden del cielo para que los meros seres terrestres los veamos, y luego levantan vuelo otra vez para continuar su eterno peregrinar.

Still, it would have been great, just once, to have a man stare at her with total adoration. To have him be... enthralled. Yes, that was the word. She would have loved for a man to be enthralled by her.

You bring me to my knees and lift me up at the same time. It's the definition of magic.

the moment he'd seen that female he'd forgotten his own name, most of his English vocabulary, and seventy-five percent of his sense of balance. Instant. Cosmic. Attraction. -Trez's thoughts about Selena

You are more astounding than even my daydreams.