“Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men.”— William Allingham
“I'd be a Butterfly born in a bower, Where roses and lilies and violets meet.”— Thomas Haynes Bayly
“I may not be a unicorn, but I am a unicorn-lover, and that's the next best thing.”— Peter S. Beagle
“What you're trying to do is find a plausible, believable image of something that doesn't exist.”— John Howe
“When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”— J. M. Barrie
“What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no fantastic; there is only the real.”— André Breton
“And the stars in the night were the eyes of his wolves, and the wind itself was their song.”— Emma Bull
“The best game the fairies play, / The best game of all, / Is weaving spiders' webs for a ball.”— Rose Fyleman