Jack Zipes > Quotes

“...what Hoffamnn keeps insisting in all his fairy tales and fantasies is that, if adults do not nourish the imagination in their children, the children will lose sight of their potential, and their imagination will take its revenge later by abandoning them in a banal, lifeless world. Life without the imagination in Hoffmann's tales can be traced in the mechanical behaviour of those "deadened" adults who want to regulate the lives of children, or in adults who have been traumatized because they cannot use their imaginations to gain appropriate recognition of their identities. Only by introducing disruptive and extraordinary characters like Drosselmeier, so Hoffamnn believed, will children have a chance to glimpse the different worlds and alternatives to their lives that have already been chartered and prescribed before they were born.”
― Jack Zipes

“[The Brothers Grimm] made a brotherly pact to remain and work together for the rest of their lives, and together they cultivated a passion for recovering the “true”nature of the German people through their so-called natural Poesie, the term that the Grimms often used to describe the formidable ancient Germanic and Nordic literature.
(The Complete First Edition of The Original Folk & Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, An introduction: rediscovering the original tales of the Brothers Grimm)”
― Jack Zipes

“The secret of "Bluebeard" is that there is no secret.”
― Jack Zipes