Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But this is truest of the face of an infant. I consider that to be one kind of vision, as mystical as any. Marilynne Robinson More Quotes by Marilynne Robinson More Quotes From Marilynne Robinson Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair. Marilynne Robinson me serious education writing The mind, whatever else it is, is a constant of everyone's experience, and, in more ways than we know, the creator of the reality that we live within... Nothing is more essential to us. Marilynne Robinson live experience mind reality