Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it. — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child. — Madeleine L'Engle Book Copy Share Image
science never threatens God - it opens up more possibilities. — Madeleine L'Engle God Copy Share Image
“Where there is an unreconciled quarrel, everybody suffers” — Madeleine L'Engle Quarrel Copy Share Image
“Ananda: that joy without which the universe will fall apart and collapse.” — Madeleine L'Engle Collapse Copy Share Image
“Just relax and don’t worry over things that needn’t trouble you,” Mrs Whatsit said.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a… — Madeleine L'Engle Add Copy Share Image
If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. — Madeleine L'Engle Honest Copy Share Image
It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends. — Madeleine L'Engle Balance 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… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“Remember, he hasn’t much imagination. Or, rather, it’s been frozen for a long while and hasn’t had time to thaw.” — Madeleine L'Engle Time Copy Share Image
The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. It is only a shallow character… — Madeleine L'Engle Character Copy Share Image
Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason… — Madeleine L'Engle Matter Copy Share Image
During the long drag of years before our youngest child went to school, my love for my family and my need to… — Madeleine L'Engle Bumps Copy Share Image
The degree of talent, the size of the gift, is immaterial. All artists must listen, but not all hear great symphonies, see… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are, and what our… — Madeleine L'Engle Death Copy Share Image
“... Papa's always had the ability to remember the good things and let the bad ones go." "Not a bad ability." "...… — Madeleine L'Engle Forgiveness Copy Share Image
But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my… — Madeleine L'Engle Drown Copy Share Image
For the past several generations we've forgotten what the psychologists call our archaic understanding, a willingness to know things in their deepest,… — Madeleine L'Engle Archaic Copy Share Image
“To be half a century plus is wonderfully exciting, because I haven't lost any of my past, and I am free to… — Madeleine L'Engle Century Copy Share Image
“Now the red eyes and the light above seemed to bore into Charles, and again the pupils fo the little boy's eyes… — Madeleine L'Engle Eyes Looked Copy Share Image
My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where… — Madeleine L'Engle Book Copy Share Image
“She was enfolded in the great wings of Mrs. Whatsit and she felt comfort and strength pouring through her. Mrs. Whatsit was… — Madeleine L'Engle Courage Copy Share Image
“So my hope, each day as I grow older, is that this will never be simply chronological aging . . . but… — Madeleine L'Engle Aging Copy Share Image
But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of… — Madeleine L'Engle Alive Copy Share Image
“In a moment of crisis we don't act out of reasoned judgment but on our conditioned reflexes. We may be able to… — Madeleine L'Engle Body work Copy Share Image
“The writer whose words are going to be read by children has a heavy responsibility. And yet, despite the undeniable fact that… — Madeleine L'Engle Books Copy Share Image
“Jesus, who comes across in the Gospels as extraordinarily strong, begged in the garden, with drops of sweat like blood running down… — Madeleine L'Engle Faith Copy Share Image
An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers...To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy...If I… — Madeleine L'Engle Able Copy Share Image
