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
Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast — Madeleine L'Engle Aunt Copy Share Image
My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock. — Madeleine L'Engle Broken Copy Share Image
She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in… — Madeleine L'Engle Ability 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
A burst of harmony so brilliant that it almost overwhelmed them surrounded Meg, the cherubim, Calvin, and Mr. Jenkins. But after a… — Madeleine L'Engle Able Copy Share Image
“You feel things too deeply to bear them unless you can get them out of yourself through some form of art.” — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
The images were gone, but Calvin was there, was with her, was part of her. She had moved beyond knowing him in… — Madeleine L'Engle Atoms 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
When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband. — Madeleine L'Engle Brides Copy Share Image
No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then… — Madeleine L'Engle Believe Copy Share Image
“Right now I am like the unborn baby in the womb, knowing nothing except the comforting warmth of the amniotic fluid in… — Madeleine L'Engle Birth Copy Share Image
“A winter ago I had an after-school seminar for high-school students and in one of the early sessions Una, a brilliant fifteen-year-old,… — Madeleine L'Engle Believe in god Copy Share Image
“If the work comes to the artist and says, 'Here I am, serve me,' then the job of the artist, great or… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
You cannot take credit for your talents. It is what you do with them that counts. — Madeleine L'Engle Credit Copy Share Image
A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light. — Madeleine L'Engle Appreciate Copy Share Image
“All teachers must face the fact that they are potential points of reference. The greatest challenge a teacher has to accept is… — Madeleine L'Engle Courage Copy Share Image
A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which… — Madeleine L'Engle Ability Copy Share Image
