“While you read this, I am imperishable, somehow more alive than I have ever been, in the strength of my youth, with… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Everything that falls upon the eye is apparition, a sheet dropped over the world's true workings. The nerves and the brain are… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“We would have visions in those days,a number of us did. Your young men will have visions and your old men will… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“But every memory is turned over and over again, every word, however chance, written in the heart in the hope that memory… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I have never distinguished readily between thinking and dreaming. I know my life would be much different if I could ever say,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The mind has a complex life that can seem quite autonomous - dreams, obsessions, unwilled memory are all instances of this. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Cultural pessimism is always fashionable, and since we are human, there are always grounds for it. It has the negative consequence of… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I had a dream once that Boughton and I were down at the river looking around in the shallows for something or… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“It is...difficult to describe someone, since memories are by their nature fragmented, isolated, and arbitrary as glimpses one has at night through… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“We had visions in those days, a number of us did. Your young men will have visions and your old men will… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Glory went to look in on her father. He lay on his right side, his face composed, intent on sleep. His hair… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I believe that the old man did indeed have far too narrow an idea of what a vision might be. He may,… — 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
“I am glad I didn't understand, because I have rarely felt joy like that, and assurance. It was like one of those… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“We fly forgotten as a dream, certainly, leaving the forgetful world behind us to trample and mar and misplace everything we have… — 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
