Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Art, Writing, Mean

  "A Few Words to a Young Writer" by Ursula K. Le Guin, www.ursulakleguin.com. 2008.

• As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Soul, Feelings

• It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Evil, Soul, Ged

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “A Wizard of Earthsea”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Country, Lying, Eye

  A Left-Handed Commencement Address, delivered 22 May 1983, Mills College, Oakland, California

• In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different, inaccurate map of the escape route from hell.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Airports, People, Soul

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2014). “Changing Planes: Stories”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram it into beer cans and fingernails and stake it out in lots and own it. It will drown you all and never even notice.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Beer, Sea, Soul

• There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Cutting, Soul, Enemy

• Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the love of nature" seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. It was strange to see Takver take a leaf into her hand, or even a rock. She became an extension of it, it of her.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Cutting, Rocks, Hands

• A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they strengthen their souls.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Mean, Soul, Who Cares

• The backside of heroism is often rather sad; women and servants know that. They know also that the heroism may be no less real for that. But achievement is smaller than men think. What is large is the sky, the earth, the sea, the soul.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Real, Men, Thinking

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.599, Simon and Schuster

• ...fiction is made out of the writer's experience, his whole life from infancy on, everything he's thought and done and seen and read and dreamed. But experience isn't something you go and get - it's a gift, and the only prerequisite for receiving it is that you be open to it. A closed soul can have the most immense adventures, go through a civil war or a trip to the moon, and have nothing to show for all that "experience"; whereas the open soul can do wonders with nothing.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  War, Adventure, Moon

• Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Soul, Doe, Hell

  Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Dispossessed”, p.151, Hachette UK

• The great authors share their souls with us- "literally.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Writing, Soul, Share

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