A Quote by Diane Ackerman
We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention
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While we're living, we need to get over ourselves and accept others if we want to enchant people.
Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.
Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear
The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile.
A basic language-literacy of Nature is falling from us. And what is being lost along with this literacy is something perhaps even more valuable: a kind of language-magic, the power that certain words possess to enchant our imaginative relations with Nature and landscape.
One must understand what people are thinking, feeling and believing in order to enchant them.
Of all the errands life seems to be running, of all the mysteries that enchant us, love is my favorite
The word enchant comes from the Latin 'incantare', meaning to sing or chant magical words or sounds.
Folk tales are my favourite form of story telling. They not only just adjust the reader according to the world it is introducing the reader to, but also enchant the reader with its mysterious and magical characters.
But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are not paying attention, which is seldom because, as writers, paying attention is what we do. We are scribes to the ticking of the days, and we have a job to do. We are not at peace unless we are doing it.
Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it explodes in the reader's face.
We ourselves cannot put any magic spells on this world. The world is its own magic.
I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the world they live in, to the story you have to tell, but just a kind of deep attention and out of that if you pay attention properly the story will tell you what it needs.
Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.
Let the word and the legend go before you. Let the world go before you. Let your shadow grow. Let it grow hair on its face. Let it become dark. Given time, words may even enchant an enchanter.
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