Madeleine L'Engle Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Madeleine L'Engle on Wise Famous Quotes.
It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.
When a character wants to do one thing and I want him to do another, the character is usually right.
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one. I
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
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 would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.
O God,
here, as so often, I cannot help.
Let me not forget she is your child
and your concern makes mine as nothing.
here, as so often, I cannot help.
Let me not forget she is your child
and your concern makes mine as nothing.
In the act of creativity, the artist lets go the self-control which he normally clings to and is open to riding the wind.
She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.
Your intuition and your intellect should be working together ... making love. That's how it works best.
If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.
Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of the imagination. It binds us where we should be free.
Women must be very gentle with men as they, as well as women, seek to regain the lost wholeness for which they were destined.
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity.
But if I knew everything, there would be no wonder, because what I believe in is far more than I know.
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
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.
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.
Hate is like cancer, separate from the normal cells, devouring and not being nourished, annihilating itself along with everything it attacks.
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 shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way.
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.
Meg's eyes were too bright. I wish human beings couldn't have feelings. I am having feelings. They hurt.
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.
Ach,' she heard someone saying, 'I left mein ceinture dans le shower ce morgen. Quelle dope ich bin!
Active happiness is not a common state. Active unhappiness is better than dull days. Katherine was seldom in an intermediate stage.
Prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous.
We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.
If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.
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.
If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive.
I'm apt to get drunk on words ... Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.
Mr Jenkins. Unique, as every star in the sky is unique, every leaf on every tree, every snowflake, every farandola, every cherubim, unique: Named.