Fairy Sayings

Fairies In Art

~ Fairies have been in art throughout the centuries taking the form of visual art, literature or song
~ Fairies in art in the form of literature is used as means to express encounters with Fairies or portray them
~ Plays written about Fairies Include:William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream, William S. Gilbert's play Gilbert and Sullivan operetta
~ Terry Pratchett explores the Fairy Folk through his books in Wee Free Men and Lords and Ladies
~ Perhaps one of the most famous examples of Fairies in art and literature is the story of Tinkerbell the Fairy in Peter Pan

Fairy sayings

~Fairies comb goats beards every Friday

~To pick the foxglove is to offend the Fairies

Come Fairies
take me out of this dull world,
for I would ride with you
upon the wind and dance
upon the mountains like a flame.

~W.B. Yeats.

The land of Faery,
Where nobody gets old and godly and grave,
Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise,
Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.

~William Butler Yeats

Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren't go a-hunting
For fear of little men;
Wee folk, good folk,
Trooping all together,
Green jacket, red cap,
And white owl's feather
!
~ William Allingham, The Fairies

Come with us hand in hand
Join us in play and joyous dance
awaken from your dream of worldly worries
now light as a feather
as graceful as autumn leaves falling
hear the child calling

Experience the Fairy Kingdom

~Idunna Elemiah

This is the Fairy land. O spite of spites,
We talk with goblins, owls, and sprites!
If we obey them not, this will ensue:
They'll suck our breath, or pinch us black and blue.

~ William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
(Dromio of Syracuse at II, ii)

Where the bee sucks, there suck I;
In a cowslip's bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat's back I do fly
After summer merrily.

~William Shakespeare, The Tempest (Ariel at V, i)