13 Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle
- 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.
- Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.
- Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.
- Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
- It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
- We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
- Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.
- 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 the result of our failures in love.
- When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
- 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 vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
- 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 for children.
- The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
- That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
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