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There is a folk-tale about a shoemaker and his wife who were so poor that they had to send their many children out into the world to make a living. The lads went through many a perilous adventure but came home in the end, unscathed, to help their mother. They had always remembered their mother's advice and wise words; they often quoted them when they were in trouble, and in fact they recognized one another by them in foreign lands.The countless peoples of the world may be looked upon as so many children sent out into the world. They have gone through many adventures and hardships. They have drifted apart and fallen out with one another, on many occasions. They have failed to realize soon enough that they are brothers.But now it seems that they are beginning to realize this -- at least to the extent that they are able to get acquainted with each other's fundamental natures -- through their stories and songs.

~ Gyula Illyés

Gyula Illyés Brotherhood Folk Tales Hungarian Music Story Telling

There's what's smart and what's right. - Molly in the Night Gardener

~ Jonathan Auxier

Jonathan Auxier Fiction Folk Tales

My great-great grandfather and I were the best of friends, although we never met

~ Raji Singh

Raji Singh Alternative American History Drama Fiction Folk Tales Humor Satire Whimsey

The words of the bards come down the centuries to us, warm with living breath.

~ Pádraic Pearse

Pádraic Pearse Folk Tales Remembering Writers

And we, from within the sigh of the trees, and the soft moss underfoot, and the calling of night birds, watched him as he watched, gazing where he should not.

~ Emmanuelle De Maupassant

Emmanuelle De Maupassant Folk Tales Ghosts Gothic Morality

We who are beyond the mortal world see many things from the edges, we hear the subtle shifts of rhythm in the beat of a blackening heart.

~ Emmanuelle De Maupassant

Emmanuelle De Maupassant Folk Tales Ghosts Gothic Morality

These tales, without exception, express the truth that justice triumphs in the end. They all contain the idea that it is worth while to fight for the truth, in any situation.In this fight man is assisted by more powerful beings than ordinary mortals. And the triumph of justice is the only sense and consolation in this world. Indeed, the world itself started out with this hope. The human race received it long, long ago as a cradle-song.

~ Gyula Illyés

Gyula Illyés Folk Tales Hungarian Justice Story Telling

The life of the hero of the tale is, at the outset, overshadowed by bitter and hopeless struggles; one doubts that the little swineherd will ever be able to vanquish the awful Dragon with the twelve heads. And yet, ...truth and courage prevail and the youngest and most neglected son of the family, of the nation, of mankind, chops off all twelve heads of the Dragon, to the delight of our anxious hearts. This exultant victory, towards which the hero of the tale always strives, is the hope and trust of the peasantry and of all oppressed peoples. This hope helps them bear the burden of their destiny.

~ Gyula Illyés

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For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world.

~ Angela Carter

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