The real

The real is just as magical as the magical is real.

~Ernst Junger

Nothing can resist

"Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good. Learn how to will. How can one learn to will? This is the first Arcanum of magical initiation."

- E. Levi

I walk to the North

"I walk to the North of my sacred space;
Herein all negativity be erased.
I waslk to the east where the magic winds dance;
Here I evoke the power of abundance.
I waslk to the south where the fires burn bright;
...There I shall banish, all evil, take flight!
I walk to the west, where clear waters flow;
The circle's completed, blessings bestow!"

- Trish Telesco

Round the circle

"Round the circle, 'tis where we go;
Follow where the lily blows,
North and East and South and West,
The Watchtowers, we each behest.

...Round the circle, sunward dance;
Follow where the lilies prance,
Toward God and Goddess, throughout the night;
Let our magic now take flight!"

-Trish Telesco

Being A Witch

We should educate people that 'Witch' is not evil but ancient and positive. The first time I called myself a 'Witch' was the most magical moment of my life.

~Margot Adler

Faeries

Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.

~William Butler Yeats

Deep within

Deep within the winter forest among the snowdrift wide
You can find a magic place where all the fairies hide....

~Author Unknown

The Realm of Fairy

The Realm of Fairy is a strange shadow land, lying just beyond the fields we know.

~Author Unknown

I'll seek

I'll seek a four-leaved shamrock in all thy fairy dells,
And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells!

~Samuel Lover

The fairies went

The fairies went from the world, dear,
Because men's hearts grew cold:
And only the eyes of children see
What is hidden from the old...

~Kathleen Foyle

Are those the magic fairy wands

Are those the magic fairy wands
glistening on the tree
or only winter icicles that I see?

~Author Unknown

It's easy to believe

It's easy to believe in magic when you're young. Anything you couldn't explain was magic then. It didn't matter if it was science or a fairy tale. Electricity and elves were both infinitely mysterious and equally possible - elves probably more so.

~Charles de Lint

And this is what comes

And this is what comes from dabbling; I mean you can’t practice witchcraft while you look down your nose at it.

~Practical Magic, the movie.

Always throw

Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder, keep rosemary by your garden gate, plant lavender for luck, and fall in love whenever you can.

~Practical Magic, the movie.

You should not

"You should not do magic you do not understand!"

~~ from The Indian in the Cupboard.

Without being forgiven

Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to a single deed from which we could never recover; we would remain the victims of its consequences forever, not unlike the sorcerer’s apprentice, who lacked the magic formula to break the spell.

~Hannah Arendt

Any sufficiently advanced technology

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

~Arthur C. Clarke

Princess Edane

Princess Edane... heard a voice singing on a May Eve like this, and followed half awake and half asleep, until she came into the Land of Faery, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.

~William Butler Yeats

Water is

Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes water and nobody knows what that is.

~D H Lawrence

We're

We're not dust, we're magic.

~Richard Bach