Mari Luisa

“Can there be art without the human in it? Maybe that is what I wish to capture: beast as seen by beast, tree as seen by tree.”
― Daniel Mason, North Woods

“Come to Elfland,' the troll said.

The child thought for a while. Other children had gone, and the elves always sent a changeling in their place, so that nobody quite missed them and nobody really knew. She thought awhile of the wonder and wildness of Elfland, and then of her own home.

'N-no,' said the child.

'Why not?' said the troll.

'Mother made a jam roll this morning,' said the child. And she walked on gravely home.”
― Lord Dunsany, The King of Elfland's Daughter

“Hooded, and veiled with their night-like tresses, The Fates shall bring what no prophet guesses.”
― Lord Dunsany, The King of Elfland's Daughter

“To pray to the stars,” she said to herself in the night, “is surely wrong. These images in the water are not the stars. I will pray to their images, and the stars will know.”
― Lord Dunsany, The King of Elfland's Daughter