Magic

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.
Daniel Hudson Burnham

The words I use
Are everyday words and yet are not the same!
You will find no rhymes in my verse, no magic.
They are your very own phrases.
La Muse Qui Est La Grace
Paul Claudel

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as a mediator between this strange hostile world and us, a way of seizing the power by giving form to our terrors as well as our desires.
Pablo Picasso

Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal,
Daughter of Elysium!
Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancing
Goddes, to thy shrine we come.
Thy sweet magic brings together
What stern Custom spreads afar;
All men become brothers
Where thy happy wing-beats are.
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

And we are magic talking to itself, noisy and alone.
I am queen of all my sins forgotten. Am I still lost?
Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself, counting this row and that row of moccasins waiting on the silent shelf.
Anne Sexton