Magic Words

Create pure wonder and awe whenever you speak.

A one-of-a-kind resource for magicians and word lovers, exploring the most intriguing magic words and phrases from around the world.

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Sim Sala Bim

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Gordon Meyer shares this quotation: After a full evening send off with Dante's party we couldn't get close to the meaning of 'S...

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Thursday, January 28, 2010

A Haunted Language

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William Keckler has theory that so many poets explore the Underworld because our language is haunted by the ghosts of other cultures: Poets...

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Monday, January 25, 2010

Simple Faith in a Word

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"I speak of magic advisedly, for in a great deal of what has been said and written there is more of simple faith in a word or a vague ...

Friday, January 22, 2010

Morocco

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"The word explained, linked up, gave significance — that magical word Morocco!" —Anthony Hope, The Secret of the Tower , 1919

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Please

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"The word 'please' is a magical word, charged in every letter with some good, charitable, soothing, subduing electricity, whose...

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Poetry and Context

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"The word that is magical in a particular line of poetry may be quite inert in a different sentence; the construction that is merely a ...

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Fountain

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"The mere word ' fountain ' is magical. At sight or sound of it, the Fountains of Youth, Forgetfulness and Immortality are brou...

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