Quotes about Spell

Books may well be the only true magic

She had fallen under water, under a spell, in love with love.

Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.

But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures.

The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.

Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' - or else not.