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 More Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle More Quotes From Madeleine L'Engle If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free. Madeleine L'Engle mankind language humans You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children Madeleine L'Engle teaching children facts As far as I'm concerned, there is only one absolute: God is love. Madeleine L'Engle god-is-love absolutes concerned Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like. Madeleine L'Engle voice reading character Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity. Madeleine L'Engle maturity artist real 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 pain writing joy If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy. Madeleine L'Engle hurt feelings joy 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 trying two believe 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 hero men children 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 understanding loss past 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 language may art 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 writing jobs art I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about. Madeleine L'Engle knows wanted 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-relations our-love humans My protagonists, male and female, are me. Madeleine L'Engle protagonists males female 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 hurt made long To refuse to respond is in itself a response. Madeleine L'Engle response refuse silence 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 latin doe trying What can we give a child when there is nothing left? Madeleine L'Engle left giving children prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous. Madeleine L'Engle ineffable prayer trying
