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Quotes About Enchantment

Things forbidden have a secret charm.
~ Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Life became Magical when I started believing in its Magic.
~ Purvi Raniga
No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith.
~ R.A. Salvatore
When he played, though—when he played he could liquefy your soul. He walked on water—well, his fingers did—liquid supple and fluid smooth, running, dripping, flowing.
~ Rabih Alameddine
In appearance Sachish gives the impression of a celestial being. His eyes glow; his long, slender fingers are like tongues of flame; the colour of his skin is more a luminescence than a colour. As soon as I set eyes on him I seemed to glimpse his inner self; and from that moment I loved him.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
The sleep that flits on baby's eyes --- does anybody know from where it comes ? Yes, there is a rumour that it has its dwelling where, in the fairy village among shadows of the forest dimly lit with glow-worms, there hang two timid buds of enchantment. From there it comes to kiss baby's eyes.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I always thought Magic Kingdom was supposed to be the happiest place on Earth - where everything smells like waffle cones and cotton candy - but when I first went to Diagon Alley, I knew that was where I belonged.
~ Laurel Van Ness
Lena Horne - when she walked onstage, she really was Erzulie.
~ Cecil Taylor
When writing fantastical literature, your biggest problem is getting your audience to believe the fantastical elements of your story.
~ Arthur Slade
The leader is the person who brings a little magic to the moment.
~ Denise Morrison
Life is magically beautiful. And it brings you what is perfect.
~ Evangeline Lilly
I'm a sucker for a great smile.
~ Rachel Lindsay
I'm a sucker for any guy with an accent with any kind.
~ Janeane Garofalo
I think it's important to keep your personal life to yourself as much as you can. It protects your sanity and you need to have boundaries. And it helps that enchantment of watching an actor. If you know someone's favourite colour or what they like to do on a Sunday, you won't fall for the character as much.
~ Dianna Agron
You, you only, exist. We pass away, till at last, our passing is so immense that you arise: beautiful moment, in all your suddenness, arising in love, or enchanted in the contraction of work. To you I belong, however time may wear me away. From you to you I go commanded. In between the garland is hanging in chance; but if you take it up and up and up: look: all becomes festival!
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Forest! They seek your trees to sleep among, With their long sentences hung. Forest!
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
En une seule fleur Enchantée de cet artifice, ton abondance l'avait osé. Tu étais assez riche, pour devenir cent fois toi-même en une seule fleur; c'est l'état de celui qui aime Mais tu n'as pas pensé ailleurs.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
C'est pourtant nous qui t'avons proposé de remplir ton calice. Enchantée de cet artifice, ton abondance l'avait osé. Tu étais assez riche, pour devenir cent fois toi-même en une seule fleur; c'est l'état de celui qui aime ... Mais tu n'as pas pensé ailleurs.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Deep, calm, siren-like, and magical. -Two Poems to Hans Thomas on his Sixtieth Birthday
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
You run like a herd of luminous deer, and I am dark, I am forest.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
For now I had begun to believe, despite all the talk of science around me, that there was a magic in spoken words.
~ Ralph Ellison
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson