Enchantment Quotes - Page 4

• The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the context of profane existence, and in which special laws apply.

  Theodor Adorno

  Art, Self, Law

  Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer (1997). “Dialectic of Enlightenment”, p.19, Verso

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• En la música todo se prolonga, todo se edifica, y cuando el encantamiento ha cesado, seguimos bañados en su claridad; la soledad va acompañada de una nueva esperanza entre la piedad por nosotros mismos -que nos hace más indulgentes y más comprensivos- y la certeza de volver a encontrar algo, aquello que vive eternamente en la música.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Música, soledad, comprensión

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• Como escritor, o secretario, siempre me he sentido encargado de custodiar todos los objetos inesperados de encanto mundano y no mundano, como si se me pudiera considerar personalmente responsable si se perdiera aunque fuera uno pequeño.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Men, Might

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.23, Cornell University Press

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• Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.

  Anais Nin

  Suffering, Stories, Saved

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• I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and at the bottom of it all: only love; poetry. Sheer enchantment, fear, humiliation. It all comes with love

  Anna Ajmátova

  Pain, And Love, Chaos

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• One of the things I've discovered at my age is I must have enchantment. And that was not clear to me in my earlier years. When I look at my favorite films, the Frank Capra - even Scorsese, even 'Goodfellas,' what makes that movie so remarkable is there's enchantment in their world.

  David O. Russell

  Years, Age, Looks

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• Sex is all the enchantment required. Do men find women so enchanting once the sex is taken out? Does anyone find anyone that enchanting unless they have sexual business with them? Who else are you enchanted by? Nobody.

  Philip Roth

  Sex, Taken, Men

  Philip Roth (2001). “The Dying Animal”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• El almacén de los cuentos de hadas, esa cámara azul donde yacen las historias a la espera de ser redescubiertas, encierra la promesa de esos encantos creativos, no sólo para sus propios personajes atrapados en sus propias tramas; ofrece metamorfosis mágicas a quien abre la puerta, a quien transmite lo que allí se encontró y a quienes escuchan lo que el narrador trae. La facultad de asombrarse, al igual que la curiosidad, puede hacer que las cosas sucedan; ya es hora de que los deseos tengan su merecido.

  Marina Warner

  Mentir, Carácter, Pensar

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• Maybe all wondrous books appear in our lives the way Milo’s tollbooth appears, an inexplicable gift, cast up by some curious chance that comes to feel, after we have finished and fallen in love with the book, like the workings of a secret purpose. Of all the enchantments of beloved books the most mysterious-the most phantasmal-is the way they always seem to come our way precisely when we need them.

  Michael Chabon

  Book, Secret, Needs

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• Defy the crowd. The crowd isn’t always wise. It can also lead you down a path of silliness, sub-optimal choices, and downright destruction. Enchantment is as necessary for people to diverge from a crowd as it is to get people to join one.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Wise, People, Choices

  FaceBook post by Guy Kawasaki from Feb 07, 2013

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• When the object is perceived as particular and unique and not merely the member of a family, when it appears independent of any general notion and detached from the sanity of a cause, isolated and inexplicable in the light of ignorance, then and only then may it be a source of enchantment.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Ignorance, Independent

  Samuel Beckett (1970). “The collected works of Samuel Beckett”

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• Rosanne Daryl Thomas's tale of her enchantment by bees is a delight to read. It also contains close observations of the natural world, tales of failure and triumph with the hives, and a stellar cast of characters that includes her daughter, their cats, the hapless Farmer Tom, Pete the crossing guard, and, most important, the Bee Master. Every word tastes sweet as honey.

  Janet Lembke

  Daughter, Sweet, Character

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• What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophical, Thoughtful, Thinking

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2012). “Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks”, p.44, Regnery Publishing

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• I suppose there's something to be said for the sheer reinforcement of our beliefs, but really I think poetry is more useful as disenchantment than enchantment.

  Robert Hass

  Thinking, Reinforcement, Belief

  Entrevista con Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. Marzo/abril de 1997.

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• Siempre me han fascinado los cuentos de hadas, la fantasía, ya sabes, demonios, nigromantes, dioses y diosas, todo lo que está fuera de nuestro parentesco y de nuestro mundo cotidiano. Siempre me interesaron los encantamientos y los magos, y aún me interesan.

  Christopher Lee

  Fairy Stories, Everyday, Gods And Goddesses

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of - heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the more obscure abilities of our minds. Nothing that science can't explain away. Wizardry is spells and enchantments. Fairy tales.

  Charles de Lint

  Empathy, Mind, Wizardry

  "Into the Green". Book by Charles de Lint, 1993.

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• In alarming proportions the following words have disappeared from architectural publications: beauty, inspiration, magic, sorcery, enchantment, and also serenity, mystery, silence, privacy, astonishment. All of these have found a loving home in my soul.

  Luis Barragán

  Inspiration, Home, Silence

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• Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.

  Paul Morley

  Moral, Deceitful, Mass

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• We are prisoners of the world's demented sink.
  The soft enchantments of our years of innocence
  Are harvested by accredited experience
  Our fondest memories soon turn to poison
  And only oblivion remains in season.

  John Ashbery

  Life, Memories, Years

  John Ashbery (1986). "Poemas escogidos"

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• When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to grant the permission reluctantly, fearing that any moment they will find out the imposture of that showy chaff. But this tenderness is quite unnecessary; the enchantments are laid on very thick. Their young life is thatched with them. Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hang it round with frippery romance, like the children of the happiest fortune.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Children, Boys

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2389, Delphi Classics

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• Todas las industrias están bajo el control de esas personas [los productores de cine] gracias al Capitalismo. Si los capitalistas se dejaran seducir por los encantos del arte y dejaran de perseguir los beneficios, estarían en bancarrota antes de saber dónde están. No se puede combinar la búsqueda del dinero con la búsqueda del arte.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Movie, Art, People

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• It would be a miracle of God if it happened. I know it... If God wills it, the summer rains will fill the wadis... and the salmon will run the river. And then my countrymen... all classes and manner of men-will stand side by side and fish for the salmon. And their natures, too, will be changed. They will feel the enchantment of this silver fish... and then when talk turns to what this tribe said or that tribe did... then someone will say, Let us arise, and go fishing.

  Paul Torday

  Summer, Running, Rain

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• Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

  Francis Bacon

  Philosophy, Men, Progress

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• This is a city of absolute enchantment in the literal sense of the word. It loosens all the bonds binding the traveller to his own age and sets him free to live in a past that is vital and crude but never ugly. Herat is as old as history and as moving as a great epic poem - if Afghanistan had nothing else it would have been worth coming to experience this.

  Dervla Murphy

  Moving, Epic, Past

  Dervla Murphy (1987). “Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle”, p.39, The Overlook Press

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• Quiero intentar aplicar mis habilidades a veces para hacer felices a las familias, así que tengo que hacer películas en un lugar que no sean gratuitamente violentas, que no utilicen balas y derramamiento de sangre, sino que utilicen cosas como la magia y la fantasía y el encanto y la imaginación. Para mí todo eso son cosas positivas. Pero soy ecléctico y también me gusta hacer películas para el público de medianoche.

  Nicolas Cage

  Imaginación, Magia, Intento

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