“ We lived on 82nd Street and the Metropolitan Museum was my short cut to Central Park. I wrote:I go into the museumand look at all the pictures on the walls.Instead of feeling my own insignificanceI wa… Madeleine L'Engle
“ We are a generation which is crying loudly to tear down all structure in order to find freedom, and discovering, when order is demolished, that instead of freedom we have death. Madeleine L'Engle
“ They are very young. And on their earth, as they call it, they never communicate with other planets. They revolve about all alone in space.Oh, the thin beast said. Aren't they lonely? Madeleine L'Engle
“ There always have been and there always will be people who have been corrupted into enjoying any excuse for cruelty. Madeleine L'Engle
“ The images were gone, but Calvin was there, was with her, was part of her. She had moved beyond knowing him in sensory images to that place which is beyond images. Now she was kything Calvin, not red… Madeleine L'Engle
“ The artist, if he is not to forget how to listen, must retain the visionwhich includes angels and dragons and unicorns, and all the lovely creatures which our world would put in a bos marked, 'Childre… Madeleine L'Engle
“ The answer has something to do with love. Love that has to go through darkness and pain and endurance and a stark acceptance before it can come out into the far light of the sun. Madeleine L'Engle
“ Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of the imagination. It binds us where we should be free. Madeleine L'Engle
“ Questions, questions.Gaudior stomped one silver hoof. I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything. Madeleine L'Engle
“ Now wonder our youth is confused and in pain; they long for God, for the transcendent, and they are offered, far too often, either piosity or sociology, neither of which meets their needs, and they ar… Madeleine L'Engle
“ My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' For our sakes Jesus went through all the suffering we may ever have to endure, and because he cried out those words we may cry them out, too. Madeleine L'Engle
“ Maybe we have to sin, to know ourselves human, faulty and flawed, before there is any possibility of greatness. - Nik Madeleine L'Engle
“ Love, she insisted, is not power, which she considered always coercive. To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk—not safety and security—that we overcome darkness. Madeleine L'Engle
“ It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel. Madeleine L'Engle
“ It may be that we have lost our ability to hold a blazing coal, to move unfettered through time, to walk on water, because we have been taught that such things have to be earned; we should deserve the… Madeleine L'Engle
“ In the act of creativity, the artist lets go the self-control which he normally clings to and is open to riding the wind. Madeleine L'Engle
“ If you accept any position of authority you have to know when to break or circumvent a rule. It’s the knowing when that’s important. Madeleine L'Engle
“ If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes. Madeleine L'Engle
“ I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine. Madeleine L'Engle
“ I think we're supposed to ask too much of each other; otherwise, nothing would ever get done. Madeleine L'Engle
