“You are given the form, but you must write the sonnet for yourself.” — Madeleine L'Engle Sonnet Copy Share Image
We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts. — Madeleine L'Engle Attitude Copy Share Image
Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful. — Madeleine L'Engle Beautiful Copy Share Image
With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in… — Madeleine L'Engle Confusion Copy Share Image
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation… — Madeleine L'Engle Ancient Copy Share Image
God understands. And God understands that part of us which is more than we think we are. — Madeleine L'Engle God 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 Language 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 Copy Share Image
“I think we're supposed to ask too much of each other; otherwise, nothing would ever get done.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not… — Madeleine L'Engle Giving Copy Share Image
you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It is an extraordinary and beautiful thing that God, in creation. . . works with the beauty of matter; the reality of… — Madeleine L'Engle Awareness Copy Share Image
The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught. What a teacher can do... in working with children, is to… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“And this feeling of moving with the earth was somewhat like the feeling of being in the ocean, out in the ocean… — Madeleine L'Engle Moon Copy Share Image
“The artist, if he is not to forget how to listen, must retain the visionwhich includes angels and dragons and unicorns, and… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
Darkness was and darkness was good. As with light. Light and Darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For… — Madeleine L'Engle Eternity Copy Share Image
“All real art is, in its true sense, is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
Holiness ... is nothing we can *do* ... It is gift, sheer gift, waiting there to be recognized and received. We do… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“I have advice for people who want to write. I don't care whether they're 5 or 500. There are three things that… — Madeleine L'Engle Books Copy Share Image
But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill… — Madeleine L'Engle Astronomy 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
“She was silent; the great wings almost stopped moving; only a delicate stirring seemed to keep them aloft. "Listen, then," Mrs. Whatsit… — Madeleine L'Engle Beautiful Copy Share Image
When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“A great ring of pure & endless light Dazzles the darkness in my heart And breaks apart the dusky clouds of night.… — Madeleine L'Engle Darkness Copy Share Image
“I've always thought about the theatre like a Christmas tree, all shining and bright with beautiful ornaments. But now it seems like… — Madeleine L'Engle Christmas tree 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… — Madeleine L'Engle Children Copy Share Image
Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference. — Madeleine L'Engle Differences Copy Share Image
Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving. — Madeleine L'Engle Alive Copy Share Image
there are dozens and dozens of ways to be a family ... Family tends to happen. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys. — Madeleine L'Engle Growth Copy Share Image
Wherever she was, holy laughter was present to heal and redeem. — Madeleine L'Engle Comedy Copy Share Image
I have a point of view. You have a point of view. God has view. — Madeleine L'Engle God Copy Share Image
Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
