Quotes About Wonder

I am younger each year at the first snow. When I see it, suddenly, in the air, all little and white and moving; then I am in love again and very young and I believe everything." Anne Sexton, in a letter to W.D. Snodgrass (November 28, 1958)

being sixteen in the pants I died full of questions

The little girl skipped by under the wrinkled oak leaves and held fast to a replica of herself.

to be loved and found magical, like a secret…

I am surprised to see that the ocean is still going on.

The Fury of Sunsets" Something cold is in the air, an aura of ice and phlegm. All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it. The horizon bleeds and sucks its thumb. The little red thumb goes out of sight. And I wonder about this lifetime with myself, this dream I'm living. I could eat the sky like an apple but I'd rather ask the first star: why am I here? why do I live in this house? who's responsible? eh?

He turns the key. Presto! It opens this book of odd tales which transform the Brothers Grimm. Transform? As if an enlarged paper clip could be a piece of sculpture. (And it could.)

Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitation touches at many points the life of the World Beautiful? Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be, therein to be content.

She'd been to Narnia, Wonderland, Hogwarts, Dictionopolis. She had tessered, fallen through the rabbit hole, crossed the ice bridge into the unknown world beyond.

There is something in the magic we have that is greater than the magic we can do.

she wore weird baggy clothes and seemed like the sort of person who might tesser in some dark and stormy night.

Something stirred inside her, some urge to plunge into the new white world and see what it had to offer. It was like she'd walked out of a dusty old wardrobe and found Narnia.

The ground beneath our feet is home to more untapped wonder than the skies above our head

this is a magical land where every one of you can find exactly the book you need at any given time—even if you don't know you need it. Every one of you can find the book that will change your life.

we miss the opportunity to marvel at our wonders because we have so much set up still to do that what we have done pales into insignificance in relation to what is (always!) yet to be done. Ugly is in the eye of the beholder. TODAY is awareness day for what I have accomplished. Celebrations may be in order.

Görelim Hak ne eyler, N'eylerse güzel eyler.

I am left with the magic, the name, the heart miraculously touched.

Bean looked up into the sky. What if someone was watching her through a giant magnifying glass and thinking the same thing she was? What if she was as small as an ant compared to that someone? And what if that someone was an ant compared to the next world after that? Wow. Bean waved at the sky. Hi out there, she thought.

You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what's going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise.

Tout ce qui se chantait en anglais était nimbé d'une mystérieuse beauté. Dream, love, heart, des mots purs, sans usage pratique, qui donnaient le sentiment d'un au-delà.

Deep within the winter forest among the snowdrift wide You can find a magic place where all the fairies hide....

There's nothing in this world like being the first to discover some fundamental fact of nature. It's profoundly satisfying.

Cassini was so profoundly, scientifically successful. It's amazing to me, even, what we were able to do right up until the end.