Madeleine L'Engle Quotes - Page 16

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• It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  God, Believe, Names

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.91, Open Road Media

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• The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with art. I am often, in my writing, great leaps ahead of where I am in my thinking, and my thinking has to work its way slowly up to what the "superconscious" has already shown me in a story or poem.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Writing, Thinking

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink.

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  Real, Artist, Imagination

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.55, Open Road Media

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• the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Artist, Judging

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris or the poet's pad in Greenwich Village, the artist must have some kind of order or he will proudce a very small body of work. To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

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  Art, Hard Work, Paris

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.138, Convergent Books

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• All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But much bad or downright sacrilegious art depicts so-called religious subjects.

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  Religious, Art, Real

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.

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  Children, Book, Not Good Enough

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• To write for children at all is an act of faith.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Writing, Literature

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• I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me less or more fully alive.

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  Rebel, Alive, Knows

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Summer of the Great-Grandmother”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it.

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  Inspiration, Writing, Doe

  Twitter post from Nov 15, 2011

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• One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the intuition with its symbolic thinking.

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  Thinking, Intuition, Revolution

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.76, Convergent Books

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• The primary needs can be filled without language. We can eat, sleep, make love, build a house, bear children, without language. But we cannot ask questions. We cannot ask, 'Who am I? Who are you? Why?

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  Children, Sleep, House

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.117, Open Road Media

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• The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

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  Novelists, Might, Helping

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• 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.

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  Latin, Trying, Doe

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• I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Success, Art, Children

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• During the long drag of years before our youngest child went to school, my love for my family and my need to write were in acute conflict. The problem was really that I put two things first. My husband and children came first. So did my writing. Bump.

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  Husband, Children, Writing

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.

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  Writing, Needs, Want

  Twitter post from May 01, 2016

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• You learn to write by doing it.

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  Writing

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• Art is not a mirror but an icon. It takes the chaos in which we live and shows us structure and pattern, not the structure of conformity which imprisons but the structure which liberates,
  sets us free to become growing, mature human beings.

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  Art, Mirrors, Icons

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.74, Open Road Media

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• My protagonists, male and female, are me.

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  Males, Female, Protagonists

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.18, Open Road Media

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• 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.

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  Hurt, Long, Made

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.51, Open Road Media

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• The degree of talent, the size of the gift, is immaterial. All artists must listen, but not all hear great symphonies, see wide canvasses, conceive complex, character-filled novels. No
  matter, the creative act is the same, and it is an act of faith.

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  Character, Artist, Symphony

  FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Jan 01, 2017

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• What can we give a child when there is nothing left?

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Giving, Left

  "A Circle of Quiet (Crosswicks Journals, Book 1)". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1971.

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• To be alive is to be vulnerable.

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  Alive, Vulnerable

  "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1972.

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• I am also four, and twelve, and fifteen, and twenty-three, and thirty-one, and forty-five and . . . and . . . and . . .

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Twenties, Twelve, Three

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.169, Convergent Books

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