“You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Chimerical grief — now guilt, now blame, now the thought that it could all have been otherwise. ~ Glory” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Dawn and its excesses always reminded me of heaven, a place where I have always known I would not be comfortable.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I have been thinking about existence lately. In fact, I have been so full of admiration for existence that I have hardly… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
More generally, people who lived in a period when maternal, infant and childhood mortality were still high would have been tougher than… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I know this is all mere apparition compared to what awaits us, but it is only lovelier for that. There is a… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“But I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I think sometimes there might be an advantage in making people aware how worn and stale these old transgressions are. It might take some… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Faith for her was habit and family loyalty, a reverence for the Bible which was also literary, admiration for her mother and father. And… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.’ There are pleasures to be found where you… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I sometimes am discouraged by what seems to be a sort of conventional disparagement of humankind. I think often people feel that they are… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
