Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general. — Madeleine L'Engle Compassion Copy Share Image
“You’re much too straightforward to be able to pretend to be what you aren’t,” Mrs. Murry said.” — Madeleine L'Engle Person Copy Share Image
It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the… — Madeleine L'Engle Facts Copy Share Image
'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it. — Madeleine L'Engle Majors Copy Share Image
“Idiot,” Proginoskes said, anxiously rather than crossly. “Love isn’t how you feel. It’s what you do.” — Madeleine L'Engle Idiot Copy Share Image
When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“It is the pattern throughout Creation. One child, one man, can swing the balance of the universe.” — Madeleine L'Engle Balance Copy Share Image
We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than… — Madeleine L'Engle Artist Copy Share Image
“It was a star," Mrs. Whatsit said sadly. "A star giving up its life in battle with the Thing. It won, oh,… — Madeleine L'Engle Astronomy Copy Share Image
Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience… — Madeleine L'Engle Joy Copy Share Image
When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for… — Madeleine L'Engle Adults Copy Share Image
I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“I suppose that depends on how you look at it,” Meg said. “Usually no matter what happens people think it’s my fault,… — Madeleine L'Engle Bad Feeling Copy Share Image
We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of… — Madeleine L'Engle Asylums Copy Share Image
I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and… — Madeleine L'Engle Arrogance Copy Share Image
“That was surely the purest kind of kything. Mr. Jenkins had never had that kind of communion with another human being, a… — Madeleine L'Engle Silence speaks Copy Share Image
When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act… — Madeleine L'Engle Conscious Copy Share Image
Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed. — Madeleine L'Engle Christ Copy Share Image
Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks. — Madeleine L'Engle French Copy Share Image
Following Christ has nothing to do with success as the world sees success. It has to do with love. — Madeleine L'Engle Christ Copy Share Image
If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure. — Madeleine L'Engle Accomplish Copy Share Image
Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are. — Madeleine L'Engle Blind 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… — Madeleine L'Engle Air Copy Share Image
We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future. — Madeleine L'Engle Feet Copy Share Image
“One of the most helpful tools a writer has is his journals. Whenever someone asks how to become an author, I suggest… — Madeleine L'Engle Books Copy Share Image
Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious. — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
Women must be very gentle with men as they, as well as women, seek to regain the lost wholeness for which they… — Madeleine L'Engle Destined Copy Share Image
Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which… — Madeleine L'Engle Chronology Copy Share Image
When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things. — Madeleine L'Engle All kinds Copy Share Image
our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the… — Madeleine L'Engle Assuming Copy Share Image
An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world. — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow.… — Madeleine L'Engle Bird Copy Share Image
Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life… — Madeleine L'Engle Definitions Copy Share Image
“Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.” — Madeleine L'Engle Read Copy Share Image
“There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.” — Madeleine L'Engle Conversation Copy Share Image
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing. — Madeleine L'Engle Heart Copy Share Image
“But of course we can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts.” — Madeleine L'Engle Credit Copy Share Image
Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them? — Madeleine L'Engle Disillusion Copy Share Image
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling. — Madeleine L'Engle Angel Copy Share Image
“We all tend to make zealous judgement, and thereby close ourselves off from revelation.” — Madeleine L'Engle Judgement Copy Share Image
