“I have given my love to what is worthy of love. Is that not the kingdom and the unperishing spring?” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“All you have to do to see life whole is to see it as mortal. I'll die, you'll die; how could we… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Honor can exist anywhere, love can exist anywhere, but justice can exist only among people who found their relationships upon it. Now,” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Love's just one of the ways through, and it can go wrong, and miss. Pain never misses. But therefore we don't have… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I don't know. I love the idea of democracy, the hope, yes, I love that. I couldn't live without that. But the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I wondered, not for the first time, what patriotism is, what the love of country truly consists of, how that yearning loyalty… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“There are talking dogs all over the place, unbelievably boring they are, on and on and on about sex and shit and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
All or nothing at all, the true lover says, and that's the truth of it. My love will never die, he says.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I expect it will turn out that sexual intercourse is possible between Gethenian double-sexed and Hainish-norm one-sexed human beings, though such intercourse… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“No, I don’t mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“They made love. Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Well," he said slowly, "sometimes there's a passion that comes in its springtime to ill fate or death. And because it ends… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The reality of our life is in love, in solidarity,” said a tall, soft-eyed girl. “Love is the true condition of human… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“A friend. What is a friend, in a world where any friend may be a lover at a new phase of the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Let me ask you this, Mr. Ai: do you know, by your own experience, what patriotism is?” “No,” I said, shaken by… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“She didn't even ask me if I was going to go on flying. She knew I would. I don't understand the people… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“An Odonian undertook monogamy just as he might undertake a joint enterprise in production, a ballet or a soap-works. Partnership was a… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The mezklete bustled up to them, pushing its little cart with its furry paws. Mezkletes love parties, love to give food, love… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“They did not use the sonic stunners but the foray gun, the ancient weapon that fires a set of metal fragments in… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“For it seemed to me, and I think to him, that it was from that sexual tension between us, admitted now and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“We came, Takver thought, from a great distance to each other. We have always done so. Over great distances, over years, over… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“...I wore his blood for clothing, on my legs and thighs and hands: a dry, stiff, brown garment with no warmth in it.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“Aeneas' mother is a star?" "No; a goddess." I said cautiously, "Venus is the power that we invoke in spring, in the garden, when… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“Meaning - this is perhaps the common note, the bane I am seeking. What is the Meaning of this book, this event in the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate cause and effect, means and end. The… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“If both you and your plane are on time, the airport is merely a diffuse, short, miserable prelude to the intense, long, miserable plane… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“Hector had no virtue?” “Of course he did. He won all his battles, till the last one.” “We all do,” Aeneas remarked.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“I was willing to believe him that most modern writing was trash, on the evidence that so much old writing was trash; but I… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“Can women operate as women in a male institution without becoming imitation men?” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
