If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“But she finds it so difficult to verbalize, Charles dear. It helps her if she can quote instead of working out words… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The primary needs can be filled without language. We can eat, sleep, make love, build a house, bear children, without language. But… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Language changes. If it does not change, like Latin it dies. But we need to be aware that as our language changes,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“One of the hardest lessons I have to learn is how not to be judgmental about people who are judgmental. When I see how… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this can lead… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Instead of rejoicing in this glorious “impossible” which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his mighty… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk—not safety and security—that we overcome darkness.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“IT was the most horrible, the most repellent thing she had ever seen, far more nauseating then anything she had ever imagined with her… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I feel as though I'm not breathing when I'm out of his presence. He's the oxygen in my air, the sun in my universe,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
