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Letter "I" » Innocence
«Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief; it is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child has its fairy godmother in its own soul.»
«To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.»
«Mystery and innocence are not akin»
«That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end»
«The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.»
Author: Charles de Lint
| About:
Imagination,
Innocence,
Wonder
| Keywords:
exist, fey, on sight, sight, sighting, sight seeing, wonders
«Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.»
«The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round»
«The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time»
«I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of wat»
«The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Innocence,
Silence
| Keywords:
innocence, persuades, The Silence
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