me all the world and exiles me from it.
- Ursula K. Le Guin, Harper's magazine, August 1990
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Showing posts with label ursula le guin. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
a dreamer's wisdom - ursula k. le guin
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives
me all the world and exiles me from it.
- Ursula K. Le Guin, Harper's magazine, August 1990
me all the world and exiles me from it.
- Ursula K. Le Guin, Harper's magazine, August 1990
Sunday, July 1, 2012
illustration - khoa le
Khoa illustrates the magic that lies at the heart of relationships between human and human,
human and nature, human and animal, and the result is quite stunning.
From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from
other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn
what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow
gestures of trees.
- Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
human and nature, human and animal, and the result is quite stunning.
From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from
other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn
what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow
gestures of trees.
- Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
on writing (fantasy) - ursula leguin
In reinventing the world of intense, unreproduceable,
local knowledge,
seemingly by a denial or evasion of current reality, fantasists are perhaps
trying to assert and explore a larger reality than we now allow ourselves.
They are trying to restore the sense — to regain the knowledge — that
there is somewhere else, anywhere else, where other people may live
another kind of life. The literature of imagination, even when tragic, is
reassuring, not necessarily in the sense of offering nostalgic comfort, but
because it offers a world large enough to contain alternatives, and
therefore offers hope.
- Ursula LeGuin, The Critics, the Monsters, and the Fantasists
Read the whole essay here.
seemingly by a denial or evasion of current reality, fantasists are perhaps
trying to assert and explore a larger reality than we now allow ourselves.
They are trying to restore the sense — to regain the knowledge — that
there is somewhere else, anywhere else, where other people may live
another kind of life. The literature of imagination, even when tragic, is
reassuring, not necessarily in the sense of offering nostalgic comfort, but
because it offers a world large enough to contain alternatives, and
therefore offers hope.
- Ursula LeGuin, The Critics, the Monsters, and the Fantasists
Read the whole essay here.
Friday, April 20, 2012
on writing - ursula le guin
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 Le Guin
She is so wise. Check out her quotes page on Goodreads.
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 Le Guin
She is so wise. Check out her quotes page on Goodreads.
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| By Chris Van Allsburg |
Monday, April 16, 2012
on writing (and reading) - ursula le guin
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary,
do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we
ourselves are and may become.
-Ursula Le Guin
do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we
ourselves are and may become.
-Ursula Le Guin
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