enigmatic power Quotes

What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should'st move My heart so potently?

You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world, for the fire makes a circle of light for everyone, and then no one outside learns of you. But the darkness pulls in everything: shapes and fires, animals and myself, how easily it gathers them! - powers and people - and it is possible a great energy is moving near me. I have faith in nights.

What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.

To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.

Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.

Books are not seldom talismans and spells.