Mythical Creatures: Fairies

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Albert Einstein, Art, Child, faerie, Fairy, Fairy tale, fairytale, Fantasy, Folklore, J.M. Barrie, James Matthew Barrie, literature, mythical creatures, Peter Pan, Poems, Quotes, Tales, W. B. Yeats, W. H. Auden, William Shakespeare

English: A Fairy Tale by Dorothy M.Wheeler (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)

Every time a child says, “I don’t believe in fairies,” there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.  ~James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan

Bell A Flight of the Fairies (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia)

The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve; lovers to bed; ’tis almost fairy time.  ~William Shakespeare

Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)

“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.”
― W.B. Yeats, The Collected Poems

If you want your children to be brilliant, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be geniuses, read them more fairy tales.
~Albert Einstein

Edward Robert Hughes (1851-1914) “Midsummer_Eve” (1908c) (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.
~W. H. Auden