Quotes about Enchantment

Writer, Humorist, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Lecturer

This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the sun sink down, drowned in his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature, and make a sympathetic one drunk with ecstasy.

Colors - Drinking - Enchantment - Planet - Satisfaction - Spirits

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Honore de Balzac

Artist, Novelist, Novelist

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.

Enchantment - Evolution - Failing - Giving - Nature - Possibility - Significance - Studying

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John Milton

Poet, Civil Servant

Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment?

Breathing - Earth - Enchantment - Mortality

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C. S. Lewis

Novelist, Scholar, Broadcaster

the sweet heavy smell grew very much less. For though the whole fire had not been put out, a good bit of it had, and what remained smelled very largely of burnt Marsh-wiggle, which is not at all an enchanting smell.

Enchantment - Growing - Whole

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Simone de Beauvoir

Writer, Philosopher, Political Activist, Social Theorist

She offered her mouth to him, as if enchanted. A Persian princess, a little Indian, a fox, a morning glory, a lovely wisteria--it always pleased them when you told them they looked like something, like something else.

Enchantment - India - Mornings

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Rajneesh

Guru

Only Zorbas become Buddhas - and Buddha was never a monk, A monk is one who has never been a Zorba and has become enchanted by the words of Buddhas. A monk is an imitator, he is false, pseudo. He imitates Buddhas. He may be Christian, he may be Buddhist, he may be a Hindu - that doesn't make much difference - but he imitates Buddhas.

Buddhism - Enchantment - Experience - Imitation - Monk

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H. P. Lovecraft

Writer, Novelist, Author

While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent and permanent type of expression, as old as literature itself. There will always be a certain small percentage of persons who feel a burning curiosity about unknown outer space, and a burning desire to escape from the prison-house of the known and the real into those enchanted lands of incredible adventure and infinite possibilities which dreams open up to us, and which things like deep woods, fantastic urban towers, and flaming sunsets momentarily suggest.

Adventure - Certainty - Curiosity - Enchantment - Feelings - Knowledge - Literature - Permanence - Persistence - Possibility - Prison - Real - Story - Writing

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Mahatma Gandhi

Lawyer, Politician, Civil Rights Activist

In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery.

Enchantment - Goals - Inspiration - Progression

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness; for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every bystander to take his part.

Enchantment - Terrorism

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Novelist, Scientist, Astrophysicist

The trend lines in research and innovation look good for places such as India and China and less good for America as we go forward. So even if you're not enchanted by the prospect of cosmic discovery, the prospect of dying poor may be what it takes to understand the role of this adventure in the future of the natural world in which we live.

Adventure - America - Death - Discovery - Enchantment - India - Innovation - Research - World

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Homer

Poet

Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace.

Beauty - Disgrace - Enchantment

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Lord Byron

Poet, Politician, Revolutionary

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Enchantment

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Lord Byron

Poet, Politician, Revolutionary

And life 's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

Enchantment

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Marcel Proust

Dramatist, Author, Novelist

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

Customs - Enchantment - Habit - Knowledge - Traditions

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Stephen King

Writer

In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.

Boredom - Enchantment - Growing - Loss - Priority - Reading - Story

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Philologist, Cultural Critic, Scholar

Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting.

Enchantment - Pleasure - Suffering

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Charles Dickens

Writer, Social Critic

Flora, always tall, had grown to be very broad too, and short of breath; but that was not much. Flora, whom he had left a lily, had become a peony; but that was not much. Flora, who had seemed enchanting in all she said and thought, was diffuse and silly. That was much. Flora, who had been spoiled and artless long ago, was determined to be spoiled and artless now. That was a fatal blow.

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A. A. Milne

Author

Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.

Boy - Enchantment - Friendship - Grief

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Rumi

Actress, Poet, Poet

Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?

Enchantment - Lie - World

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Victor Hugo

Poet, Novelist, Dramatist

...The girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy... Intoxications of life’s morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly trembles! Oh, reader, whoever you may be, do you have such memories? Have you walked in the underbrush, pushing aside branches for the charming head behind you? Have you slid laughing, down some slope wet with rain, with the woman you loved?

Charm - Enchantment - Memory - Mornings - Reading

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