Poetry Quote by Madeleine L'Engle — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“How long your closet held a whiff of you,”

“Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.”

“I do not know everything; still many things I understand.”

“It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.”

“But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them.”

“We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget the questions, and we become smug like the Pharisee who listed all his considerable virtues, and thanked God that he was not like other men.”

“Imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you were working out mental arithmetic. Just look at it, touch it, smell it, listen to it, turn yourself into it. When you do this, the words look after themselves, like magic.”

“In pale moonlight / the wisteria's scent / comes from far away.”

“Nothing”

“The saddest word”

“We the mortals touch the metals,”

“All of us wild and fighting for our lives. In the fragrant wilderness of this blue night, my heart sings along with the other nocturnal beasts.”