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Madeleine L'Engle 223
American writer 1918–2007Related quotes
“The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.”
Spiritual Sayings of Kahlil Gibran (1962) as translated by Anthony R. Ferris
The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination (1992) (Vintage edition, 1993, ), Preface, p. XV.
Context: These creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers could be told in simple chronological order, since the latest science replaces what went before. But the arts are another story — a story of infinite addition. We must find order in the random flexings of the imagination.
“I read with every broken heart
We should become more adventurous”
"More Adventurous"
Song lyrics, More Adventurous (2004)
“As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier.”
The Translator As Reader, p. 276.
A History of Reading (1996)
1790s, The Age of Reason, Part I (1794)
Context: But if objects for gratitude and admiration are our desire, do they not present themselves every hour to our eyes? Do we not see a fair creation prepared to receive us the instant we are born — a world furnished to our hands, that cost us nothing? Is it we that light up the sun, that pour down the rain, and fill the earth with abundance? Whether we sleep or wake, the vast machinery of the universe still goes on. Are these things, and the blessings they indicate in future, nothing to us? Can our gross feelings be excited by no other subjects than tragedy and suicide? Or is the gloomy pride of man become so intolerable, that nothing can flatter it but a sacrifice of the Creator?
