“Once, a Whimsical poet died of despair after finding himself unequal to the task of capturing a fair one's beauty in simile. I think it more likely he died of arsenic poisoning, but so the story goes.” DeathPoetryDespairFairySimilePoisoningLegendFair Folk Book:An Enchantment of Ravens Source: An Enchantment of Ravens
“He was astonishingly vain even by fair folk standards, which was like saying a pond is unusually wet, or a bear surprisingly hairy.” VanityVainFairyFair Folk Book:An Enchantment of Ravens Source: An Enchantment of Ravens