Unicorn Glade-Legends & Quotes

Welcome! In this particular clearing of the Unicorn Glade you will find my collection of quotes and legends about this fantastic creature. I am always looking for more information if you have any please send me a message scroll my fairy messengers will see that your suggestions get to me safely.
Below are the quotes, here are the legends.




"Of all the legendary animals of art, folklore and literature, the Unicorn is the one with the greatest hold on our imaginations. Other fabulous beasts are clearly inventions, existing only in a mythical landscape of our own collective creation. But the Unicorn strikes us as more than imaginary. It seems possible, even probable - a creature so likely that it ought to exist."--The Unicorn By Nancy Hathaway


"The unicorn was white, with hoofs of silver and graceful horn of pearl. . . . The glorious thing about him was his eye. There was a faint bluish furrow down each side of his nose, and this led to the eye sockets, and surrounded them in a pensive shade. The eyes, circled by this sad and beautiful darkness, were so sorrowful, lonely, gentle and nobly tragic, that they killed all other emotions except love."--The Once and Future King T.H. White


This is the creature there has never been. They never knew it, and yet, none the less, they loved the way it moved, its suppleness, its neck, its very gaze, mild and serene. Not there, because they loved it, it behaved as though it were. They always left some space. And in that clear unpeopled space they saved it lightly reared its head, with scare a trace of not being there. -- Possibility of Being RANIER MARIA RILKE