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For cleverness and wisdom are as different as are the circuitous passages of a labyrinth and the straight, upward flight of a bird.

Evangeline Walton

For cleverness and wisdom are as different as are the circuitous passages of a labyrinth and the straight, upward flight of a bird.

Tags: labyrinth, mabinogion, welsh, wisdom

Impari lentamente, mio amato, ma impari. E ciò che si impara lentamente scende più nel profondo. Voi uomini e i vostri Dei! Vi beffate della Madre per la sua lentezza da lumaca, perché crea ciecamente...

Evangeline Walton

Impari lentamente, mio amato, ma impari. E ciò che si impara lentamente scende più nel profondo. Voi uomini e i vostri Dei! Vi beffate della Madre per la sua lentezza da lumaca, perché crea ciecamente...

Tags: mabinogion, mythology, walton, welsh

About Author
Evangeline Walton (24 November 1907 – 11 March 1996) was the pen name of Evangeline Wilna Ensley, an American writer of fantasy fiction. She remains popular in North America and Europe because of her “ability to humanize historical and mythological subjects with eloquence, humor and compassion”.

For other men --- men who are part of something, who follow a chief they believe in, or ways they were reared in from birth --- they can keep their eyes from seeing what they have not been taught to s...

Evangeline Walton

For other men --- men who are part of something, who follow a chief they believe in, or ways they were reared in from birth --- they can keep their eyes from seeing what they have not been taught to s...

Tags: illusions, joiners, skeptics, traditions, unpleasant truths

Gli uomini dell'Isola dei Potenti scesero a terra. Tirarono in secca le loro navi presso la foce del fiume Boyne, il dolce corso d'acqua che prende nome da un'antica Dea, madre di Angus degli Uccelli....

Evangeline Walton

Gli uomini dell'Isola dei Potenti scesero a terra. Tirarono in secca le loro navi presso la foce del fiume Boyne, il dolce corso d'acqua che prende nome da un'antica Dea, madre di Angus degli Uccelli....

Tags: mabinogi, mabinogion, mitologia, walton

It was so awful! And he kept on looking at me and I knew I must get out of bed or he'd come and touch me. I did, too, but when I got out I wasn't me-I was a little white bunny. And he started out of t...

Evangeline Walton

It was so awful! And he kept on looking at me and I knew I must get out of bed or he'd come and touch me. I did, too, but when I got out I wasn't me-I was a little white bunny. And he started out of t...

Tags: hare, moon, nightmare, nightmares, rabbit, witch

Five actors playing allotted parts on a set stage; and now he, for whom no part had been written, had walked onto the stage unexpectedly, because one of the players had turned rebel, as she had once b...

Evangeline Walton

Five actors playing allotted parts on a set stage; and now he, for whom no part had been written, had walked onto the stage unexpectedly, because one of the players had turned rebel, as she had once b...

Tags: evil thoughts, haunting, hauntings

If men become tyrants, they shape for themselves the doom of tyrants, who are always betrayed.

Evangeline Walton

If men become tyrants, they shape for themselves the doom of tyrants, who are always betrayed.

Yet woman, though she ceased to be a king* and man protected her, was still reverenced as the source of life. Only now when man is learning that she cannot give life without him does he begin to scorn...

Evangeline Walton

Yet woman, though she ceased to be a king* and man protected her, was still reverenced as the source of life. Only now when man is learning that she cannot give life without him does he begin to scorn...

The doctor from the mainland came and went. Silence settled over the island again, like a displaced curtain falling back in thickened, heavier folds. For there was a different quality in the silence n...

Evangeline Walton

The doctor from the mainland came and went. Silence settled over the island again, like a displaced curtain falling back in thickened, heavier folds. For there was a different quality in the silence n...

Tags: ghost, horro, supernatural

Quincy laughed. If I were Elizabeth I shouldn't thank either of you for that comforting diagnosis. Would it do any good to open Aunt Sarai's grave and drive a stake through her? If you believe in as m...

Evangeline Walton

Quincy laughed. If I were Elizabeth I shouldn't thank either of you for that comforting diagnosis. Would it do any good to open Aunt Sarai's grave and drive a stake through her? If you believe in as m...

Tags: spiritual development, spiritual evolution, witch, witch hunts, witches

Only a fool is humiliated by having been weak enough to have to overcome obstacles.

Evangeline Walton

Only a fool is humiliated by having been weak enough to have to overcome obstacles.

Outside the drizzling rain had begun again. It pattered around the house, and on the roofs and eaves, like a million, tiny, stealthy feet: softly, as though the night were teeming with a host of minut...

Evangeline Walton

Outside the drizzling rain had begun again. It pattered around the house, and on the roofs and eaves, like a million, tiny, stealthy feet: softly, as though the night were teeming with a host of minut...

Questions can be more dangerous than swords.

Evangeline Walton

Questions can be more dangerous than swords.

Tags: questions, swords

Also another time she had wakened in dead of night, thinking that something touched her, and when she looked she saw that a black scaly tail, tufted with flame at the end, like a fiend's, had switched...

Evangeline Walton

Also another time she had wakened in dead of night, thinking that something touched her, and when she looked she saw that a black scaly tail, tufted with flame at the end, like a fiend's, had switched...

Tags: devil, satan, witchcraft

He asked, looking at her dark-rimmed eyes, You do not sleep?She shivered. No. I do not want to sleep any more. I sleep too much already. It is so cold, where Quincy sends me in my sleep. Deep into the...

Evangeline Walton

He asked, looking at her dark-rimmed eyes, You do not sleep?She shivered. No. I do not want to sleep any more. I sleep too much already. It is so cold, where Quincy sends me in my sleep. Deep into the...

Tags: nightmare, vision

A true king never robs his people of peace.

Evangeline Walton

A true king never robs his people of peace.

Tags: peace

Force is an ill broom to sweep anything clean with.

Evangeline Walton

Force is an ill broom to sweep anything clean with.

Tags: leadership

It isn't brave to do something you're not afraid to do.

Evangeline Walton

It isn't brave to do something you're not afraid to do.

Tags: fear

Death is the one friend who never fails any man.

Evangeline Walton

Death is the one friend who never fails any man.

Are these black cats like the hare? No. They're smaller; they only want me to play with them. Fly away with them to a place on the other side of the moon. There's a garden there, all silvery-gold, and...

Evangeline Walton

Are these black cats like the hare? No. They're smaller; they only want me to play with them. Fly away with them to a place on the other side of the moon. There's a garden there, all silvery-gold, and...

Tags: cats, dreams, moon, rabbits