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[elfgrove]

.... Where can one find quotes regarding faeries, elves, or similar?
I'm thinking classical type (at least sounding) quotes.
If you know any offhand... I'd appreciate the help.

*returns to searching*

EDIT: Quotes and etc. located, aside from in the comments...

“We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.” – Schmendrick [If you don't know, no magic in the world can help you. ;) ]

"Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be forever explaining things to them." - The Little Prince

"If I do not return, think of me. Farewell." - Prince Lir, Ch X [The Last Unicorn]

"As for you and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all, when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits." – Schmendrick

"Come fairies / take me out of this dull world, / for I would ride with you / upon the wind and dance / upon the mountains like a flame." - W.B. Yeats.

"A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspend their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"And we fairies, that do run / By the triple Hecate’s team / From the presence of the sun, / Following darkness like a dream, / Now are frolic. Not a mouse / Shall disturb this hallowed house." - William Shakespeare (A Midsummer’s Night's Dream)

"The thirteenth fairy, / her fingers as long and thin as straws, / her eyes burnt by cigarettes, / her uterus an empty teacup, / arrived with an evil gift." - Anne Sexton - Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty)

Quote Links:
- http://faeriefae.50megs.com/fairy_quotations.htm
- http://www.giga-usa.com/quotes/topics/fairies_t001.htm
- http://opendiaryplus.com/entrylist.asp?authorcode=A995897

Poems:
- Endymion
- Fairy-Land
- La Belle Dame Sans Merci
- Lamia
- A Faery Song
- The Man Who Dreamed Of Faeryland
- Tam Lin
- Allison Gross
- True Thomas

Comments

[asatira.livejournal.com]

Hmm, Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Tale" has one.

Found a copy of the start of the Tale.
"Now in the olden days of King Arthur,
Of whom the Britons speak with great honour,
All this wide land was land of faery.
The elf-queen, with her jolly company,
Danced oftentimes on many a green mead;
This was the old opinion, as I read.
I speak of many hundred years ago;
But now no man can see the elves, you know.
For now the so-great charity and prayers
Of limiters and other holy friars
That do infest each land and every stream
As thick as motes are in a bright sunbeam,
Blessing halls, chambers, kitchens, ladies' bowers,
Cities and towns and castles and high towers,
Manors and barns and stables, aye and dairies-
This causes it that there are now no fairies.
For where was wont to walk full many an elf,
Right there walks now the limiter himself
In noons and afternoons and in mornings,
Saying his matins and such holy things,
As he goes round his district in his gown. "

[elfgrove.livejournal.com]

Thankees 'Elle.

[picatrix05.livejournal.com]

There are a whole bunch of good ones about faeries here ^-^

[elfgrove.livejournal.com]

Oh thank you! This is just what I was looking for!
(I've updated the post to have some links to other resources now too.)

[jokeyxero.livejournal.com]

if you find some sites you should post the links ^__^

[elfgrove.livejournal.com]

I have done so! XD

[twinklebat.livejournal.com]

There's some good stuff in Stardust, one of Neil's books of course. I mean most of the story takes place in Faerie. I can think of instances but not particular quotes off the top of my head.
Of course I'd say look into more Shakespeare. Midsummer Night's Dream of course for one. When the king and queen of the faeries are characters there's gotta be good stuff. It's just been a long time since I've read it.