It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important. — Madeleine L'Engle Belief Copy Share Image
A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.) — Madeleine L'Engle Craftsman Copy Share Image
There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle. — Madeleine L'Engle Darkness Copy Share Image
artists ... all have a need that cannot be met by another human being. — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order. — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
All children are artists, and it is an indictment of our culture that so many of them lose their creativity, their unfettered… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future. — Madeleine L'Engle Future Copy Share Image
“The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one.” — Madeleine L'Engle Language Copy Share Image
the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“There will no longer be so many pleasant things to look at if responsible people do not do something about the unpleasant… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent;… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“You’re good in school. Everybody likes you.” “For all the most unimportant reasons,” Calvin said. “There hasn’t been anybody, anybody in the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“If we knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we'd tend not… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“From the shoulders, slowly a pair of wings unfolded, wings made of rainbows, of light upon water, of poetry. Calvin fell to… — Madeleine L'Engle Beautiful Copy Share Image
life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived ... A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring,… — Madeleine L'Engle Daffodil Copy Share Image
But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of… — Madeleine L'Engle Childhood Copy Share Image
“The figure in the icon is not meant to represent literally what Peter or John or any of the apostles looked like,… — Madeleine L'Engle Apostles Copy Share Image
In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s… — Madeleine L'Engle 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
“I didn't mean to tell you," Mrs. Whatsit faltered. "I didn't mean ever to let you know. But oh, my dears, I… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Hey Meg! Communication implies sound. Communion doesn't.' He sent her a brief image of walking silently through the woods, the two of… — Madeleine L'Engle Communication Copy Share Image
Language changes. If it does not change, like Latin it dies. But we need to be aware that as our language changes,… — Madeleine L'Engle Change 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
“Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together… — Madeleine L'Engle Freedom Copy Share Image
“But I'm not patient!" cried Meg passionately. "I've never been patient!” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“She knew that the freedom was in herself, just as the prison had been.” — Madeleine L'Engle Freedom Copy Share Image
