Maria Tatar Quotes

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

  Maria Tatar

  Visionaries, World, Beauty Poetry

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• Magic happens on the threshold of the forbidden.

  Maria Tatar

  Magic, Threshold, Forbidden

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

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• 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

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• 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.

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• The Cinderella story is wired for weirdness, and you can see it in this movie.

  Maria Tatar

  Stories, Cinderella Story, Weirdness

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