“It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I didn't know you well at all. Only, when you spoke, I seemed to see clear into you, into the center.” — 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
“Honor can exist anywhere, love can exist anywhere, but justice can exist only among people who found their relationships upon it. Now,” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“For in this love he now felt there was compassion: without which love is untempered, and is not whole, and does not… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“As often as we made love I remembered what my poet told me, that this man was born of a goddess, the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“They made love. Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“No, I don’t mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“She didn't even ask me if I was going to go on flying. She knew I would. I don't understand the people… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The mezklete bustled up to them, pushing its little cart with its furry paws. Mezkletes love parties, love to give food, love… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“An Odonian undertook monogamy just as he might undertake a joint enterprise in production, a ballet or a soap-works. Partnership was a… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I found out I was in love with you, winter before last," she said. "I wasn't going to say anything about it… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Let me ask you this, Mr. Ai: do you know, by your own experience, what patriotism is?” “No,” I said, shaken by… — 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
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
“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
“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
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
“. . . 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“Hector had no virtue?” “Of course he did. He won all his battles, till the last one.” “We all do,” Aeneas remarked.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“I was willing to believe him that most modern writing was trash, on the evidence that so much old writing was trash; but I… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“Can women operate as women in a male institution without becoming imitation men?” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
