Andersendak

A  L  O  H  A !

  "You can't get rid of evil. 

We can't,

 and I feel that so intensely.

 All the idiots

 that keep coming into the world

 and wrecking people's lives. 

And it is such an abundance

 of idiocy

 that you lose courage,

 okay?
That you lose hope — 

I don't want to lose hope." 

 Maurice Sendak, 

 with Bill Moyers, 2004

“ There must be more

 to life 

than having 

everything ”

 

 Maurice Sendak
  

“`But the Emperor

 has nothing on

 at all!' 

said a little child.” 

 Hans Christian Andersen

" Children are tough,

 though we tend to think of them

 as fragile.

 They have to be tough.
 Childhood is not easy.

 We sentimentalize children,

 but they know
 what's real and what's not.

 They understand metaphor

 and symbol.
 If children are different from us, 

they are more spontaneous.

 Grown-up lives have become 

overlaid with dross. "

 Maurice Sendak, 

The New York Times, 1987

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    "And it is through fantasy 

that children achieve catharsis. 

It is the best means they have

 for taming wild things." 

Sendak

Upon receiving the Caldecott Medal 

1964

" Where words fail, 

music speaks.  "

Hans Christian Andersen

" Life itself

 is the most wonderful 

fairy tale. "

Hans Christian Andersen




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