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Madeleine L'Engle quotes: You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard. You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: You learn to write by doing it. You learn to write by doing it.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Wild nights are my glory! Wild nights are my glory!
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take. To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have. It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: When a character wants to do one thing and I want him to do another, the character is usually right. When a character wants to do one thing and I want him to do another, the character is usually right.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: It was not an end, it was a beginning. It was not an end, it was a beginning.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: We are all broken, we human creatures, and to pretend we're not is to inhibit healing. We are all broken, we human creatures, and to pretend we're not is to inhibit healing.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Embracing her now would have been like trying to hug a sunbeam Embracing her now would have been like trying to hug a sunbeam
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one. I The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one. I
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future. We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Charles Wallace understands more than the rest of us, doesn't he? Charles Wallace understands more than the rest of us, doesn't he?
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: When have you been most you, the very most you? When have you been most you, the very most you?
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he felt like it? He would be lousy. I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he felt like it? He would be lousy.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Love is the one surprise. Love is the one surprise.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: On a planet that has given in... you must prepare to be very strong. On a planet that has given in... you must prepare to be very strong.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: As paredes tem ouvidos. (Portuguese: The walls have ears.) As paredes tem ouvidos. (Portuguese: The walls have ears.)
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day. I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet theirs. People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet theirs.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract. Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate. If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: O God,here, as so often, I cannot help.Let me not forget she is your childand your concern makes mine as nothing. O God,
here, as so often, I cannot help.
Let me not forget she is your child
and your concern makes mine as nothing.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: You are given the form, but you must write the sonnet for yourself. You are given the form, but you must write the sonnet for yourself.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy. I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Friends do everything they can to protect each other.Polly Friends do everything they can to protect each other.
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Madeleine L'Engle quotes: In the act of creativity, the artist lets go the self-control which he normally clings to and is open to riding the wind. In the act of creativity, the artist lets go the self-control which he normally clings to and is open to riding the wind.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee! Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present. She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Some things have to be believed to be seen. Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Poets are born knowing the language of angels. Poets are born knowing the language of angels.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Vitam impendre vero. (To stake one's life for the truth.) Vitam impendre vero. (To stake one's life for the truth.)
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: We want nothing from you that you do without grace or [ ... ] understanding. We want nothing from you that you do without grace or [ ... ] understanding.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Your intuition and your intellect should be working together ... making love. That's how it works best. Your intuition and your intellect should be working together ... making love. That's how it works best.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: To share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible ... To share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible ...
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful. Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure. There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness. The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of the imagination. It binds us where we should be free. Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of the imagination. It binds us where we should be free.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: God understands that part of us which is more than what we think we are. God understands that part of us which is more than what we think we are.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Women must be very gentle with men as they, as well as women, seek to regain the lost wholeness for which they were destined. Women must be very gentle with men as they, as well as women, seek to regain the lost wholeness for which they were destined.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony. When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity. Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points. A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: People are more than just the way they look. People are more than just the way they look.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: But if I knew everything, there would be no wonder, because what I believe in is far more than I know. But if I knew everything, there would be no wonder, because what I believe in is far more than I know.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I believe is alive ... and open to I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I believe is alive ... and open to growth
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: I hate it!" Charles Wallace cried passionately. "I hate the Dark Thing! I hate it!" Charles Wallace cried passionately. "I hate the Dark Thing!
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens. When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: We do not love each other without changing each other. We do not love each other without changing each other.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: In reading we must become creators. In reading we must become creators.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions. The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it. Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Many waters cannot quench the thirst for love,nor can the floods drown it. Many waters cannot quench the thirst for love,nor can the floods drown it.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity? Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light. Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Man has a viewpoint, but God has the view. Man has a viewpoint, but God has the view.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: The artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it. The artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect. I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Hate is like cancer, separate from the normal cells, devouring and not being nourished, annihilating itself along with everything it attacks. Hate is like cancer, separate from the normal cells, devouring and not being nourished, annihilating itself along with everything it attacks.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed. Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has obtained liberation from self. The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has obtained liberation from self.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way. The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be able to do it. I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be able to do it.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Meg's eyes were too bright. I wish human beings couldn't have feelings. I am having feelings. They hurt. Meg's eyes were too bright. I wish human beings couldn't have feelings. I am having feelings. They hurt.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: A community to be truly community, must have a quality of unselfconsciousness about it. A community to be truly community, must have a quality of unselfconsciousness about it.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind. Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling. Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Ach,' she heard someone saying, 'I left mein ceinture dans le shower ce morgen. Quelle dope ich bin! Ach,' she heard someone saying, 'I left mein ceinture dans le shower ce morgen. Quelle dope ich bin!
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition. Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Active happiness is not a common state. Active unhappiness is better than dull days. Katherine was seldom in an intermediate stage. Active happiness is not a common state. Active unhappiness is better than dull days. Katherine was seldom in an intermediate stage.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: That's quite something, to be loved by someone like Mrs Whatsit. That's quite something, to be loved by someone like Mrs Whatsit.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter. It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous. Prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness. There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually. We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal. For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love. If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Art is communication. Art is communication.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do. I've never had a feeling in my life. As a matter of fact, I matter only with earth people. Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do. I've never had a feeling in my life. As a matter of fact, I matter only with earth people.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Be aware that rigidity imprisons. Be aware that rigidity imprisons.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive. If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Anything that's natural can't be sinful-it may be inconvenient, but it's not sinful. Anything that's natural can't be sinful-it may be inconvenient, but it's not sinful.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving. Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: I'm apt to get drunk on words ... Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being. I'm apt to get drunk on words ... Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: It is the nature of love to create. It is the nature of hate to destroy. It is the nature of love to create. It is the nature of hate to destroy.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Being alive hurts. I have found it best not to rush for the aspirin bottle. - A Severed Wasp Being alive hurts. I have found it best not to rush for the aspirin bottle. - A Severed Wasp
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Scar tissue was the strongest tissue in the human body. Scar tissue was the strongest tissue in the human body.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy. If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Mr Jenkins. Unique, as every star in the sky is unique, every leaf on every tree, every snowflake, every farandola, every cherubim, unique: Named. Mr Jenkins. Unique, as every star in the sky is unique, every leaf on every tree, every snowflake, every farandola, every cherubim, unique: Named.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future. You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain. The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: An old ass knows more than a young colt An old ass knows more than a young colt
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Fewmets is my new swear word. I'm tired of all the old ones. Fewmets is my new swear word. I'm tired of all the old ones.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Artists ... all have a need that cannot be met by another human being. Artists ... all have a need that cannot be met by another human being.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: Probably the worst thing that has happened to our understanding of reality has been the acceptance of ourselves as consumers. Probably the worst thing that has happened to our understanding of reality has been the acceptance of ourselves as consumers.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: He's not good for you," Omio said. "He wants too much. He is someone who takes. He does not give. He's not good for you," Omio said. "He wants too much. He is someone who takes. He does not give.
Madeleine L'Engle quotes: But my memories are like a fire in winter - whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them. - Ditta But my memories are like a fire in winter - whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them.
- Ditta

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