“The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words.”
Break, Blow, Burn (2005)
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Camille Paglia326
American writer 1947Related quotes
“There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.”
Jim Butcher book Grave Peril
Source: Grave Peril
“Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.”
Margot Fonteyn (1919–1991) English ballerina
As quoted in Thoughts from Earth (2004) by James Randall Miller
John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly (1802–1874) English Whig politician and judge
Lord v. Jeffkins (1865), 35 Beav. 16.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon (1732–1802) British Baron
King v. Inhabitants of North Nibley (1792), 5 T. R. 24; Lord Romilly, Lord v. Jeffkins (1865), 35 Beav. 16.
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
Source: Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
“Magic is only useful against those with an affinity to magic.”
Melinda M. Snodgrass (1951) American writer
Source: Queen's Gambit Declined (1989), Chapter 6 (p. 76)
“I believe in the magic and authority of words.”
René Char (1907–1988) 20th-century French poet
Message as a member of the French resistance, to his superiors in London, insisting that certain codewords "The library is on fire" be changed after a disastrous parachute drop which set a forest on fire and alerted the Gestapo to the location of his group of Maquis fighters, as quoted in René Char : This Smoke That Carried Us : Selected Poems (2004) edited by Susanne Dubroff