1.
Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.
Salman Rushdie
3.
As we passed on, it seemed those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end.
Meriwether Lewis
4.
It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.
Antoine Rivarol
5.
To the one who knows how to look and feel, every moment of this free wandering life is an enchantment.
Alexandra David-Neel
6.
Relief work does not consist entirely in wearisome appeals ... it has its moments of enchantment, its adventures, its unexpected vistas into new worlds
Eglantyne Jebb
7.
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 Akhmatova
8.
Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
10.
The last of Summer is Delight -
Deterred by Retrospect.
'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review -
Enchantment's Syndicate.
To meet it - nameless as it is -
Without celestial Mail -
Audacious as without a Knock
To walk within the Veil.
Emily Dickinson
11.
Remember that nobodies are the new somebodies.
Guy Kawasaki
12.
I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.
Muriel Barbery
13.
Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.
Carl Jung
14.
Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.
Anais Nin
15.
Whoever is devoid of the capacity to wonder, whoever remains unmoved, whoever cannot contemplate or know the deep shudder of the soul in enchantment, might just as well be dead for he has already closed his eyes upon life.
Albert Einstein
16.
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
18.
[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment.
Conrad Aiken
19.
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
Lucretius
20.
It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this.
Jonathan Franzen
21.
The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of enchantment.
Pascal Bruckner
22.
Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.
Paul Morley
23.
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
Marcel Proust
24.
If you don't toot your own horn, don't complain that there's no music.
Guy Kawasaki
25.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
Terry Pratchett
26.
We have a need for enchantment that is as deep and devoted as our need for food and water.
Derrick Jensen
27.
A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.
W. H. Auden
28.
People who mattered could not take the humdrum world. But this was not the world, it was enchantment; and all of it was mine.
Daphne du Maurier
29.
Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment.
Guy Kawasaki
30.
The delight we experience when we allow ourselves to respond to a fairy tale, the enchantment we feel, comes not from the psychological meaning of the tale (although this contributes to it) but from its literary qualities-the tale itself as a work of art.
Bruno Bettelheim
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My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a music-hall.
Arthur Symons
32.
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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
34.
The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence, they must go blowing headlong to perdition.
Jean Cocteau
35.
When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will suffice. For where can one find more noble distraction, more entertaining company, more delightful enchantment than in literature?
Muriel Barbery
36.
In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are Tactile Values, Movement and Space Composition.
Bernard Berenson
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Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to new objects, and create enchantment.
Maria Tatar
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Knowledge is great. Competence is great. But the combination of both encourages people to trust you and increases your powers of enchantment. And in this world, the combination is a breath of fresh air.
Guy Kawasaki
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It (enchantment) started when the earth was born. It never stops. It is, always. It's just here.
Jerry Spinelli
40.
Stripping the protection wards off the ship was bad enough—it's a strong, strong enchantment, demon-based—but when you fell, I had to put a fast spell on the truck so it wouldn't sink when I lost consciousness. And I will lose consciousness, Alec.
Cassandra Clare
42.
If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works,
we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.
Honore de Balzac
43.
I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my first real introduction into classical music. It was totally inspiring to me.
Nicolas Cage
44.
She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
Boris Pasternak
45.
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
46.
That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.
Lloyd Alexander
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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
49.
They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil.
Stephen King
50.
He’s gone, Harry told himself. He’s gone. He had to keep thinking it as he washed and dressed, as though repetition would dull the shock of it. He’s gone and he’s not coming back. And that was the simple truth of it, Harry knew, because their protective enchantments meant that it would be impossible, once they vacated this spot, for Ron to find them again.
J. K. Rowling