“Sometimes a god comes," Selver said. "He brings a new way to do a thing, or a new thing to be done.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Darkness is only in the mortal eye, that thinks it sees, but sees not. — 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
“So God is dead, at least as a swearword, but hate and feces keep going strong. Le roi est mort, vive le… — 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
Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“This concern, feebly called 'love of nature', seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“If you can see a thing whole," he said, "it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives. . . . But close… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting ... Instead of seeing birth as an awakening from blank nonbeing and fetal… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“...close up, a world's all dirt and rocks... The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“He thought of death, in that gap between the beginning of a step and its completion, and at the end of the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“...All who ever died, live; they are reborn and have no end, nor will there ever be an end. All, save you.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Life rises out of death, death rises out of life, in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to… — 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
What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Old age generally involves pain and danger and inevitably ends in death. The acceptance of that takes courage. Courage deserves respect.” — 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
“WE stowed the wheels, uncapped the sledge-runners, put on our sis, and took off -- down, north, onward, into that silent vastness… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand… — 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
“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
“that silent vastness of fire and ice that said in enormous letters of black and white DEATH, DEATH, written right across a… — 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
