In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: 'When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?'
Titian, Tintoretto, and Paul Veronese absolutely enchanted me, for they took away all sense of subject. . . It was the poetry of color which I felt, procreative in its nature, giving birth to a thousand things which the eye cannot see, and distinct from their cause.
To estimate the value of Newton's discoveries, or the delight communicated by Shakespeare and Milton, by the price at which their works have sold, would be but a poor measure of the degree in which they have elevated and enchanted their country; nor would it be less grovelling and incongruous to estimate the benefit which the country has derived from the Revolution of 1688, by the pay of the soldiers, and all other payments concerned in effecting it.
A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.
Light-enchanted sunflower, thou Who gazest ever true and tender On the sun's revolving splendour.
Go and walk with Nature; thou wilt find Full many a gem in her enchanted cup.
Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted.
I’m enchanted by your beauty, my lady. Welcome aboard. You make a most welcome addition to our acerbic company…a lovely-smelling one, too. (Vik)
The Kitsch consumer wants to be enchanted.
Avid readers are enchanted by meaning, which is available chiefly in books.
When at last I took the time to look into the heart of a flower, it opened up a whole new world; a world where every country walk would be an adventure, where every garden would become an enchanted one.
I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not. . . well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre.
The more enchanted the idyll, greater must be the pain of its ending.
A frog in love would not be enchanted to learn that her beloved had turned into Prince Charming.
And I'm going to tell the truth: I didn't like that Sean Penn movie Into the Wild so much. Yes! I know it was critically acclaimed. I know it won all these awards! It's very sad that a boy is dead and all. But I thought the movie Enchanted, with the singing princess and the chipmunk and the people dancing in Central Park, was cuter. So there!
But whoever heard of enchanted bacon anyway?
To believe in faeries is to step into an enchanted space where the rational mind meets the irrational heart, and all things become possible.
I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the act of learning all the way.
If you just enchanted one person per day, you would make a big dent in the universe.
