A woman is a female who is human, Designed for pleasing man, the human male. A human male is pleased by many women,And all the rest you hear is fairy tale.
– Oscar Hammerstein
The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.
– William Butler Yeats
And though you should live in a palace of gold, or sleep in a dried up ditch, You could never be as poor as the fairies are, and never as rich.
– Rose Fyleman
Deaf folk hear the fairies However soft their song; ‘Tis we who lose the honey sound Amid the clamor all around That beats the whole day long.
– Rose Fyleman
Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.
– William Butler Yeats
I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Oh! where do fairies hide their heads, When snow lies on the hills, When frost has spoiled their mossy beds, And crystallized their rills?
– Thomas Haynes
Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
– William Butler Yeats