Fairy Tale Quotes & Poems |
    
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 If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. Albert Einstein When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking. Albert Einstein Scientist (1879-1955) The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue. William Butler - Yeats The Land of Heart's Desire. Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers. Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. G. K. Chesterton If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future. Danielle Steel Family Album Delacorte 85 Christian Science Monitor March 21, 1985 The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery. G. K. Chesterton I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now. John Lennon The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in. W. H. Auden - Poet (1907-73) Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together, Green jacket, red cap, And white owl's feather! William Allingham The Fairies. Every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead. James M. Barrie - Peter Pan. "Just living is not enough" said the butterfly fairy, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower." Hans Christian Andersen Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. William Butler - Yeats The Stolen Child. Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. C. S. Lewis I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. Eleanor Roosevelt Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. Hans Christian Anderson Take a sprinkling of fairy dust, An angel's single feather, Also a dash of love and care, Then mix them both together. Add a sentiment or two, A thoughtful wish or line, A touch of stardust, a sunshine ray... It's a recipe, for a Baby Girl truly fine. Author Unknown Never, in all my early childhood, did anyone address to me the affecting preamble: 'Once upon a time!' ... I can but think that my parents were in error thus to exclude the imaginary from my outlook upon facts. They desired to make me truthful; the tendency was to make me positive and sceptical. Had they wrapped me in the soft folds of supernatural fancy, my mind might have been longer content to follow their traditions in an unquestioning spirit. Edmund Gosse - Father and Son I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories. Nat King Cole This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. Neil Gaiman Child of the pure, unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale. Lewis Carroll Any man can lose his hat in a fairy-wind. Irish Saying When I sound the fairy call, Gather here in silent meeting, Chin to knee on the orchard wall, Cooled with dew and cherries eating. Merry, merry, Take a cherry Mine are sounder, Mine are rounder Mine are sweeter, For the eater When the dews fall. And you'll be fairies all. Robert Graves - Cherry-Time. When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl. James M. Barrie - Peter Pan. Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. Eugene O'Neill Knowledge is not a series of self consistent theories that converges towards an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth. Peter Feyerabend God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese! William Shakespeare - The Merry Wives of Windsor. Do not ask questions of fairy tales. Jewish Proverb 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. Rachel Carson You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them -- no matter how old or impressive they may be -- as if they are children. For most of us never really grow up or mature all that much -- we simply grow taller. O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales. Leo Rosten |
Years ago, fairy tales all began with Once upon a time... now we know they all begin with, If I am elected. Carolyn Warner Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience George Santayana In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected. Charles Dickens - British novelist (1812-1870) Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry. Max Luthi - Once Upon a Time: On the Nature of Fairy Tales 1976 Soft moss a downy pillow makes, and green leaves spread a tent, Where Faerie fold may rest and sleep until their night is spent. The bluebird sings a lullaby, the firefly gives a light, The twinkling stars are candles bright, Sleep, Faeries all, Good Night. Elizabeth T. Dillingham - A Faery Song. The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible. Washington Irving He is rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that. Ralph Waldo Emerson If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. Rachel Carson Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy. Carlo Collodi Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down? Eliza Cook A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales. Marie Curie If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future. Danielle Steele In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales. Francis Ford Coppola My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too. Kate DiCamillo Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. Alexandre Dumas Let the little fairy in you fly! Rufus Wainwright Then take me on your knee, mother; And listen, mother of mine. A hundred fairies danced last night, And the harpers they were nine. Mary Howitt - The Fairies of the Caldon Low. Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams. Douglas William Jerrold Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is fairyland. Charles Kingsley Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress. John Milton - Paradise Lost. On the tawny sands and shelves Trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves. John Milton - Comus. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung. William Collins
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