It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter. Madeleine L'Engle More Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle More Quotes From Madeleine L'Engle There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life Madeleine L'Engle risksufferingcharacter If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free. Madeleine L'Engle mankindlanguagehumans You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children Madeleine L'Engle teachingchildrenfacts As far as I'm concerned, there is only one absolute: God is love. Madeleine L'Engle god-is-loveabsolutesconcerned Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like. Madeleine L'Engle voicereadingcharacter Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity. Madeleine L'Engle maturityartistreal 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 be borne until it is ordered into words. And then it is written to be shared. Madeleine L'Engle painwritingjoy If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy. Madeleine L'Engle hurtfeelingsjoy A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of literature simply is . It is a vehicle of truth, but it is not a blueprint, and we tend to confuse the two. Madeleine L'Engle tryingtwobelieve The uncommon man has done the impossible and there has been that much more light in the world because of it. Children respond to heroes by thinking creatively and sometimes in breaking beyond the bounds of the impossible in their turn, and so becoming heroes themselves. Madeleine L'Engle heromenchildren For the past several generations we've forgotten what the psychologists call our archaic understanding, a willingness to know things in their deepest, most mythic sense. We're all born with archaic understanding, and I'd guess that the loss of it goes directly along with the loss of ourselves as creators. Madeleine L'Engle understandinglosspast Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with life on another planet, it will be through music, not through language or words. Madeleine L'Engle languagemayart I am convinced that each work of art, be it a great work of genius or something very small, has its own life, and it will come to the artist, the composer or the writer or the painter, and Madeleine L'Engle writingjobsart I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about. Madeleine L'Engle knowswanted If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive. Madeleine L'Engle human-relationsour-lovehumans My protagonists, male and female, are me. Madeleine L'Engle protagonistsmalesfemale No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover. Madeleine L'Engle hurtmadelong To refuse to respond is in itself a response. Madeleine L'Engle responserefusesilence Language changes. If it does not change, like Latin it dies. But we need to be aware that as our language changes, so does our theology change, particularly if we are trying to manipulate language for a specific purpose. That is what is happening with our attempts at inclusive language, which thus far have been inconclusive and unsuccessful. Madeleine L'Engle latindoetrying What can we give a child when there is nothing left? Madeleine L'Engle leftgivingchildren
