Le toucher est le plus de¤  mystificateur de tous les sens, a'   la diffe¤  rence de la vue, qui est le plus magique. Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.

-Barthes, Roland
  Mythologies,'La nouvelle Citroe«  n'.

Good music isthat whichpenetratesthe ear with facility and quits the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

-Beecham, SirThomas
  Television broadcast,17 Nov.

The most magical moment in the theater is a silence so complete that you can't even hear people breathe. It means that you've got them.

-Cronyn, Hume
  In Time, 2  Apr.

The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident.

-Thomas, Dylan Marlais
  Quite Early One Morning,'On Poetry'.