Best Madeleine L'Engle Quotations
- Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others. Conscious
- Sometimes when we have to speak suddenly we come closer to the truth than when we have time to think. Closer
- Anything that's natural can't be sinful-it may be inconvenient, but it's not sinful. Inconvenient
- When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity. Act
- With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me. Apart
- Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power… All
- A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points. Distance
- But unless we are creators, we are not fully alive. Alive
- Give the public the 'image' of what it thinks it ought to be, or what television commercials or glossy magazine ads have convinced us we… Ads
- I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a sea shell, holding… Bark
- When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a story which… Children
- 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. It's everybody. Care
- All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given the grace to… Accept
- Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to… Borne
- The medieval mystics say the true image and the true real met once and for all on the cross: once and for all: and yet… All
- It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write the kind of… All
- When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to… Accept
- Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling. Angel
- The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. Age
- In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were… Absolute
- You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it… Beautiful
- Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are. Blind
- When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony. Angel
- We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and… Asylums
- I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect. Always Included
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