A Quote by Charles de Lint

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of. — © Charles de Lint
Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.
Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of - heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the more obscure abilities of our minds. Nothing that science can't explain away. Wizardry is spells and enchantments. Fairy tales.
Maidens stand still, they are lovely statues and all admire them. Witches do not stand still. I was neither, but better that I err on the side of witchery, witchery that unlocks towers and empties ships.
Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?" This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!" — Merely this, and nothing more
Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.
In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.
It may be impossible for a man by merely willing it to add wings to his body, but it is possible for any man, by merely willing it, to add wings to his soul. This perennial miracle of the moral nature is capable of happening at any time.
Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.
When I was quite young I fondly imagined that all foreign languages were codes for English. I thought that "hat," say, was the real and actual name of the thing, but that people in other countries, who obstinately persisted in speaking the code of their forefathers, might use the word "ibu," say, to designate not merely the concept hat, but the English word "hat." I knew only one foreign word, "oui," and since it had three letters as did the word for which it was a code, it seemed, touchingly enough, to confirm my theory.
No word is capable of carrying the impulses one wants to send with it.
Happiness is not merely a word. It is a state of mind.
To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
To serve the Word is to fulfill the highest function of which man is capable.
I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.
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