Fernando Pessoa Quotes

Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze andstone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horsesalong the edges of thick forests, and then we know that we have looked backthrough the ivory gates into that world of wonder that was ours, before we were wise and unhappy.

Not all of E. Nesbit's children's books are fantasies, but even the most realistic somehow seem magical. In her holiday world, nobody ever goes to school, though all the kids know their English history, Greek myths, and classic tales of derring-do.

Artless fairy stories enchant us in our first years and retain their hold on us until our last.

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.

Storytelling has a narcotic power.

What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

There's something about girls and unicorns that's deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.

I still want magic, I find. The old fashioned kind. I don't believe in it, but I still have a hankering for it.

The idea of future or past, either way, is a core part of entertainment. It's something we've always loved as humans. Its part of our psyche, I think.

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

'Star Wars' came out when I was seven. It was so different from anything else, like peeking into the land of Oz. All you wanted to do was see it again and go back and see more of it. That feeling is not easy to reproduce.

As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

Fantasy is my heart and love. And I just want to play in that garden for the rest of my life.

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.

I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image.

I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.

I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually.

Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.

We yearn for the beautiful, the unknown, and the mysterious.

I like to share my story with children, and they are amazed by the story.

I'm a great believer in fairy tales. I think it is important to have something you can lose yourself in.

I love fairy tales.