Disability, Deformity, and Disease in the Grimms' Fairy Tales Quotes

“A poem does not exist in and of itself but instead exists only in relation to the human being, Wilhelm wrote to Savigny, just as the sun in effect does not shine when we have our eyes closed.”
― Ann Schmiesing, Disability, Deformity, and Disease in the Grimms' Fairy Tales

“Grimms’ able-bodied aesthetics lead them (and more precisely Wilhelm) to endow exemplary characters with beautiful eyes and to diminish the sight of immoral characters, even to the extent of depriving a wicked character of one or both eyes.”
― Ann Schmiesing, Disability, Deformity, and Disease in the Grimms' Fairy Tales