Top 5 Quotes by Maria Tatar

It is through beauty, poetry and visionary power that the world will be renewed.

It is through beauty, poetry and visionary power that the world will be renewed.

Visionaries, World, Beauty Poetry

Magic happens on the threshold of the forbidden.

Magic, Threshold, Forbidden

Maria Tatar (2004). “Secrets Beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives”, p.1, Princeton University Press

Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to new objects, and create enchantment.

Maria Tatar

Hands, Magic, Enchantment

Maria Tatar (2009). “Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood”, p.80, W. W. Norton & Company

The unsparing savagery of stories like “The Robber Bridegroom” is a sharp reminder that fairy tales belong to the childhood of culture as much as to the culture of childhood... They capture anxieties and fantasies that have deep roots in childhood experience.

Maria Tatar

Roots, Childhood, Anxiety

"The Grimm Reader: The Classic Tales of the Brothers Grimm". Book by Maria Tatar, August 9, 2010.