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Quotes About Enchantment

She couldn't make him look just like any other man to her. He looked like the love thoughts of women. He could be a bee to a blossom—a pear tree blossom in the spring. He seemed to be crushing scent out of the world with his footsteps. Crushing aromatic herbs with every step he took. Spices hung about him. He was a glance from God. So
~ Zora Neale Hurston
I love all things magic.
~ Jaz Sinclair
Para los enamorados es un placer infinito encontrar en los accidentes de un paisaje, en la transparencia del aire y en los aromas de la tierra la poesía que anida en su alma. La naturaleza habla por ellos.
~ Honore de Balzac
L'étude prête une sorte de magie à tout ce qui nous environne.
~ Honore de Balzac
Fairyland is the place where what we look upon as symbols and figures actually exist and occur
~ Unknown
there is not a single homely thing that, looked at from a certain angle, does not become fairy. Endymion Leer
~ Unknown
anyone,then, who has tasted fairy fruit walks through life beside other people to a different tune from theirs
~ Unknown
Qué encanto!—murmuró, quedando inmóvil con una rodilla sobre al almohadón del surrey. Un momento después las serpentinas volaban hacia la victoria. Ambos carruajes estaban ya enlazados por el puente colgante de cintas, y la que lo ocasionaba sonreía de vez en cuando
~ Horacio Quiroga
De todas las mujeres que conocí en el mundo vivo, ninguna produjo en mí el efecto que Enid. La impresión fue tan fuerte que la imagen y el recuerdo mismo de todas las mujeres se borró. En mi alma se hizo de noche, donde se alzó un solo astro imperecedero: Enid. La sola posibilidad de que sus ojos llegaran a mirarme sin indiferencia, deteníame bruscamente el corazón. Y ante la idea de que alguna vez podía ser mía, la mandíbula me temblaba.
~ Horacio Quiroga
The enchantments of the past must always become the disenchantments of the future. But memory, a preservative, may intervene. The embalmer of original enchantments, it is the only human faculty that can outwit the advance of chronological time. Art, the embalmer of memory, is the only human vocation in which the time regained by memory can be permanently fixed.
~ Unknown
Ma tu vivi continuamente nelle favole, solamente non te ne accorgi più. Quando un adulto entra nel mondo delle fiabe non riesce più ad uscirne. Non lo sapevi?
~ Hugo Pratt
Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced.
~ Hugo von Hofmannsthal
She tried to summon the sixteen-o'clock dream.
~ Unknown
falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.
~ Ian Mcewan
STUPEFYING Fair as a bride is the world. But beware — For none may marry this stupefying one. (Anwar-i -Suhaili)
~ Idries Shah
Tu talismán mágico es poderoso, pero ¿acaso eres Salomón para hacerlo funcionar?
~ Idries Shah
What good is religion without magic?
~ Colin Falconer
steer clear of the love of dark sorceresses.
~ Comte de Lautreamont
Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.
~ Cornelia Funke
Harry Potter, he sends a message on Owl Mail while us poor old muggles have to make do with instantaneous emails and texting. Oh, if only we could be like you Harry Potter, with your four day owl delivery!
~ Craig Ferguson
And it happens like that. Like when you first realise that there is no such thing as magic.
~ Craig Silvey
Why do you taste like dessert?" Iona wanted to know. He deliberately let his eyes widen. "Because I'm awesome?
~ Unknown
Within the magic world view, coincidence is confirmation.
~ Unknown
I can take a book in my hands and voyage across the world. China, Burma, Jamaica—the very sound of the words is an enchantment bringing me sights and sounds, and odors that my senses have never savored.
~ D.E. Stevenson