G K Chesterton

Magic G K Chesterton

STRANGER. We are of such stature as we will. But the elves grow small, not large, when they would mix with mortals. PATRICIA. You mean they are beings greater than we are. STRANGER. Daughter of men, if you would see a fairy as he truly is, look for his head above all the stars and his feet amid the floors of the sea. Old women have taught you that the fairies are too small to be seen. But I tell you the fairies are too mighty to be seen. For they are the elder gods before whom the giants were like pigmies. They are the Elemental Spirits, and any one of them is larger than the world. And you look for them in acorns and on toadstools and wonder that you never see them.