"There was more than one way into the Otherworld." —Lisa Tuttle, The Mysteries Pictured above, Prof. Oddfellow knocks on a fairy door.

"He places the tube to his ear and the answer comes."
—The Carpet Trade Review, Vol 5, No 11, Nov. 1878

"Is the real secret of power that when it seems greatest, it is dying?"
—D. Lamar Jacks, "Newgrange"

"Most secret of all is what's forgotten."
—John Crowley, Daemonomania

Evening Promenade, or Sea Beach Costumes, Autumn, 1810.  Via Bibliodyssey.

"Mysteries make one dream of unendurable bewitchments, they have the fragrance of something quite, quite unspeakably beautiful.  Who knows, who knows.  Ah—"
—Robert Walser, JAKOB VON GUNTEN

The great secret the hedonists keep to themselves: "that time allows pleasure, not money."  (Anthony Marais, Delusionism.)

"Like the sound of water readying to boil were the whispers of his voice." —Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings

"To speak is to offend the power of silence."  —Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings

"A bit of mica glimmering in a crevice of the pavement suggests its story of the many feet that have passed over it; the tiny wildflowers peeping through the lush grass along a forest pathway whisper intimate secrets of the woods; a cobweb spun within the belfry of an old church reveals its mysterious hieroglyphs."
—Jessie Lemont, "The Fairy Folk of Dugald Stewart Walker," The International Studio, 1914

"I am not so rash, I trust, as to essay to pluck out the heart of the mystery.  But the game of coming to close quarters with the riddle is more than worth the candle."
—John Livingston Lowes, The Road to Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of the Imagination, 1927

"Gods liked to conceal themselves in curious places.  That was the first law of great secrets."
—Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings

Art by sonmisonmi.

Piecing together the secret of wonder-working . . .


 

Piecing together the secret of the white buffalo . . .


 

Piecing together the secret of the whispering spring . . .


 

Piecing together the secret of water . . .