Quotes About Elfland

#1. There seemed to be a magic all round that fire of big logs quietly smouldering in the woods upon Autumn's discarded robe that lay brilliant there; and it was not the magic of Elfland, nor had Ziroonderel called it up with her wand: it was only a magic of the wood's very own. And

Lord Dunsany

#2. I am a big car enthusiast. I totally understand guys like Jay Leno who have a thousand cars. But asking me my favorite car would be like asking my favorite song or favorite food - it changes everyday.

Casey James

#3. If you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory. Translation by David Downie

Marguerite Yourcenar

#4. Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

Margaret Atwood

#5. And, to say truly, the greatest benefit that learning bringeth unto men is this: that it teacheth men that be rough and rude of nature, by compass and rule of reason, to be civil and courteous, and to like better the mean state than the higher.

Plutarch

#6. Look at the Darkness, giving birth to the Sun

Kahlil Gibran

#7. March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.

L.M. Montgomery

#8. From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840.

Chuck Close

#9. It burst out of me until I was a star exploding.
And I could see everything.

Jodi Meadows

#10. Sometimes, the only way to evolve is to open ourselves fully.

Kamal Ravikant

#11. There's failure to every success

Thabiso Monkoe

#12. The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.

Jane Yolen

#13. The fear of dogs is deep and universal amongst all that are less than Man.

Lord Dunsany