Quotations

By George MacDonald

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

I must act and wander. With the sun well risen, I rose, and put my arms as far as they would reach around the beech-tree, and kissed it, and said good-bye. A trembling went through the leaves; a few of the last drops of the night's rain fell from off them at my feet; and as I walked slowly away, I seemed to hear in a whisper once more the words: "I may love him, I may love him; for he is a man, and I am only a beech-tree."
—from Phantastes

About Geroge MacDonald

It must be more than thirty years ago that I bought . . . Phantastes. A few hours later I knew I had crossed a great frontier. . . . What it actually did to me was to convert, even to baptise, my imagination.
—C.S. Lewis

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