magical quotes

Le toucher est le plus de  mystificateur de tous les sens, a'   la diffe  rence de la vue, qui est le plus magique. Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.

- Roland Barthes
  Mythologies,'La nouvelle Citroe«  n'.

Good music isthat whichpenetratesthe ear with facility and quits the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

- SirThomas Beecham
  Television broadcast,17 Nov.

The most magical moment in the theater is a silence so complete that you can't even hear people breathe. It means that you've got them.

- Hume Cronyn
  In Time, 2  Apr.

The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident.

- Dylan Marlais Thomas
  Quite Early One Morning,'On Poetry'.