Enter these enchanted woods, You who dare. Nothing harms beneath the leaves More than waves a swimmer cleaves. Toss your heart up with the lark, Foot at peace with mouse and worm, Fair you fare. Only at a dread of dark Quaver, and they quit their form: Thousand eyeballs under hoods Have you by the hair. Enter these enchanted woods, You who dare.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Enter the natural world with courage and joy; fear turns its wonders into monsters.
- In plain terms
- Nature is safe if you are brave, but scary if you are afraid.
- What can you take from it?
- Your mindset shapes your experience of nature.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Does fear create monsters?
- How do you face the unknown?
Another view
It ignores real physical dangers in the wild.
More from George Meredith
Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.
Permalink to quote #11 She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer, Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!
Permalink to quote #13 On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose. Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend.
Permalink to quote #10
Related quotes
And the cloud that took the form (When the rest of Heaven was blue) Of a demon in my view.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe quote #5 Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne quote #6 When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any more clearly for doing so.
Sigmund FreudSigmund Freud quote #12