Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark? — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I don't know. We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Only in silence the word, Only in dark the light, Only in dying life: Bright the hawk's flight On the empty sky.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To see a candle's light, one must take it into a dark place. This is the same as to see the good… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Even in merely reading a fairytale, we must let go our daylight convictions and trust ourselves to be guided by dark figures,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“It is a terrible thing, this kindness that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“A dark hand had let go its lifelong hold upon her heart. But she did not feel joy, as she had in… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around,… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“. . . 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
