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“Without this playing with fantasy, no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Inevitably they find their way into the forest. It is there that they lose and find themselves. It is there that they gain a sense of what is to be done. The forest is always large, immense, great and mysterious. No one ever gains power over the forest, but the forest posses the power to change lives and alter destinies.”
― Jack Zipes, The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World

“The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening to destroy free will and human compassion. The fairy tale sets out to conquer this concrete terror through metaphors.”
― Jack Zipes

“If there is one ‘constant’ in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation.”
― Jack Zipes, The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales