Darkness is only in the mortal eye, that thinks it sees, but sees not. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The word must be heard in silence; there must be darkness to see the stars. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“In trouble and from darkness you come, Ged, yet your coming is joy to me.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“A voice in the darkness said, ‘You have come too far.’ Arren answered it, saying, ‘Only too far is far enough.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?' ...'Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefore death follows at their… — 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
Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Offering I made a poem going to sleep last night, woke in sunlight, it was clean forgotten. If it was any good,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There is neither source nor end, for all things are in the Center of Time. As all the stars may be reflected… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“On the blank leaf glued to the inner back cover I drew the double curve within the circle, and blacked the yin… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Night falls; the traveler must pass down village streets, between the houses with yellow- lit windows, and on out into the darkness… — 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
