Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women
"Ah, my dearest ink-bleeder,
The wellspring that seethes within your soul spills onto parchment without your invitation, and that mere notion has left you in a state of provocative yet – dare I say – beautiful confusion. Isn't it wondrous, though nuanced with wonder? A gift innate, a gift inherent that asks only to be revered. Your words flow no... See more
Whether they’ve made the land, or the land’s made them, it’s hard to say, if you take my meaning. It’s wonderfully quiet here. Nothing seems to be going on, and nobody seems to want it to. If there’s any magic about, it’s right down deep, where I can’t lay my hands on it, in a manner of speaking.’
J.R.R. Tolkien • The Lord of the Rings
One of the thoughts that, as I don’t in the least shrink now from noting, used to be with me in these wanderings was that it would be as charming as a charming story suddenly to meet some one. Some one would appear there at the turn of a path and would stand before me and smile and approve. I didn’t ask more than that – I only asked that he should
... See moreSusie Boyt • The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories
A man’s soul is as full of voices as a forest; there are ten thousand tongues there like all the tongues of the trees: fancies, follies, memories, madnesses, mysterious fears, and more mysterious hopes. All the settlement and sane government of life consists in coming to the conclusion that some of those voices have authority and others not.