Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to the work. Madeleine L'Engle More Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle More Quotes From Madeleine L'Engle 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. Madeleine L'Engle illnessinsaneasylums 'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it. Madeleine L'Engle wrinkle-in-timewrinklesnames Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition. Madeleine L'Engle new-years-resolutionpsychicsintuition The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly. Madeleine L'Engle littlestryingway you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument. Madeleine L'Engle good-enoughnakedmind Itt iss Eevill…" "What is going to happen?" "Wee wwill cconnttinnue tto ffightt!"… "And we’re not alone, you know, children," came Mrs.Whatsit, the comforter. "…some of the best fighters have come from your own planet…" "Who have our fighters been?" Calvin asked. "Oh, you must know them, dear," Mrs.Whatsit said. Mrs.Who’s spectacles shone out at them triumphantly. "And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. Madeleine L'Engle lightdarknesschildren Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again. Madeleine L'Engle vacationgoing-awayhome Believing takes practice. Madeleine L'Engle practicebelieve Darkness was and darkness was good. As with light. Light and Darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being, in joyful rhythm. Madeleine L'Engle dancinglightdarkness You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you. Madeleine L'Engle up-to-youwritingmean Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated. Madeleine L'Engle hate-mehaterhurt All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs. Madeleine L'Engle consciousnessdrugart You don’t know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you’ll ever learn. Madeleine L'Engle darlingmoderationwonder We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal. Madeleine L'Engle temporal-thingsphilosophicallooks It was a dark and stormy night. Madeleine L'Engle snoopydarknight One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time. Madeleine L'Engle humilityhumbleinspiring A book comes and says, 'Write me. Madeleine L'Engle writingbook Love is the one surprise. Madeleine L'Engle surpriselove-is But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint of clay or words. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter our vocation or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts, or having some kind of important career. Madeleine L'Engle live-lifecreativityart That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better. Madeleine L'Engle cookingfoodpeople
