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Madeleine L'Engle Camp (November 29, 1918 – September 6, 2007) was an American writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young adult fiction, including the Newbery Medal-winning winning A Wrinkle in Time. An Episcopalian, her works for both adults and children are products of her strong Christian universalist faith and an intense interest in modern science.
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“Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.”
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Quote source: The Summer of the Great-Grandmother (1974), p. 143
“I endeavor To hold the I as one only for the cloud Of which I am a fragment, yet to which I'm vowed To be responsible. Its light against my face Reveals the witness of the stars, each in its place Singing, each compassed by the rest, The many joined to one, the mightiest to the least. It is so great a thing to be an infinitesimal part of this immeasurable orchestra the music bursts the heart, And from this tiny plosion all the fragments join: Joy orders the disunity until the song is one.”
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Quote source: "Instruments" in The Weather of the Heart (1978)
“All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given the grace to know and accept Christ. All the strayed and stolen sheep. All the little lost ones.”
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Quote source: A Stone for a Pillow (1986), as quoted in If Grace Is True : Why God Will Save Every Person (2003) by Philip Gulley and James Mulholland, p. 223
“We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes…”
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Quote source: The Rock That is Higher: Story as Truth (1993)
“Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to be borne until it is ordered into words. And then it is written to be shared.”
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Quote source: The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle (2005)
“Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.”
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Quote source: A Wrinkle in Time (1962) Mrs Whatsit, Ch. 1
“Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.”
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Source: A Wrinkle in Time (1962)
“Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared. The light spread until the patch of Dark Thing had vanished, and there was only a gentle shining, and through the shining came the stars, clear and pure.”
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Source: A Wrinkle in Time (1962)
“As the skipping rope hit the pavement, so did the ball. As the rope curved over the head of the jumping child, the child with the ball caught the ball. Down came the ropes. Down came the balls. Over and over again. Up. Down. All in rhythm. All identical. Like the houses. Like the paths. Like the flowers”
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Source: A Wrinkle in Time (1962)
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“Alike and Equal are not the same.”
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Source: A Wrinkle in Time (1962)
“Hate was nothing that IT didn't have. IT knew all about hate.”
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Source: A Wrinkle in Time (1962)
“Suddenly she knew. She knew! Love. That was what she had that IT did not have. She had Mrs. Whatsit's love, and her father's, and mother's, and the real Charles Wallace's love, and the twins', and Aunt Beast's. And she had her love for them. But how could she use it? What was she meant to do?”
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Source: A Wrinkle in Time (1962)
“Because of the very nature of the world as it is today our children receive in school a heavy load of scientific and analytic subjects, so it is in their reading for fun, for pleasure, that they must be guided into creativity. There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin. This is the limited universe, the drying, dissipating universe, that we can help our children avoid by providing them with “explosive material capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.” So how do we do it? We can’t just sit down at our typewriters an turn out explosive material. I took a course in college on Chaucer, one of the most explosive, imaginative, and far-reaching in influence of all writers. And I’ll never forget going to the final exam and being asked why Chaucer used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had certain characters behave in certain ways. And I wrote in a white heat of fury, “I don’t think Chaucer had any idea why he did any of these thing. That isn’t the way people write.” I believe this as strongly now as I did then. Most of what is best in writing isn’t done deliberately.”
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Source: • Source: Wikiquote: "Madeleine L'Engle" (Quotes, The Expanding Universe (1963):
Newbery Award Acceptance Speech: The Expanding Universe (August 1963), republished in A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition.)
“I heard a famous author say once that the hardest part of writing a book was making yourself sit down at the typewriter. I know what he meant. Unless a writer works constantly to improve and refine the tools of his trade they will be useless instruments if and when the moment of inspiration, of revelation, does come. This is the moment when a writer is spoken through, the moment that a writer must accept with gratitude and humility, and then attempt, as best he can, to communicate to others. A writer of fantasy, fairly tale, or myth must inevitably discover that he is not writing out of his own knowledge or experience, but out of something both deeper and wider. I think that fantasy must possess the author and simply use him. I know that this is true of A Wrinkle in Time. I can’t possibly tell you how I came to write it. It was simply a book I had to write. I had no choice. And it was only after it was written that I realized what some of it meant. Very few children have any problem with the world of the imagination; it’s their own world, the world of their daily life, and it’s our loss that so many of us grow out of it.”
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Source: • Source: Wikiquote: "Madeleine L'Engle" (Quotes, The Expanding Universe (1963):
Newbery Award Acceptance Speech: The Expanding Universe (August 1963), republished in A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition.)
“What a child doesn’t realize until he is grown is that in responding to fantasy, fairly tale, and myth he is responding to what Erich Fromm calls the one universal language, the one and only language in the world that cuts across all barriers of time, place, race, and culture. Many … books are from this realm… books on Hindu myth, Chinese folklore, the life of Buddha, tales of American Indians, books that lead our children beyond all boundaries and into the one language of all mankind. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth... The extraordinary, the marvelous thing about Genesis is not how unscientific it is, but how amazingly accurate it is. How could the ancient Israelites have known the exact order of an evolution that wasn’t to be formulated for thousands of years? Here is a truth that cuts across barriers of time and space.”
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Newbery Award Acceptance Speech: The Expanding Universe (August 1963), republished in A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition.)
“A book, too, can be a star, “explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,” a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Newbery Award Acceptance Speech: The Expanding Universe (August 1963), republished in A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition.)
“The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline. In real play, which is real concentration, the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself. He has thrown himself completely into whatever it is he is doing. A child playing a game, building a sand castle, painting a picture, is completely in what he is doing. His self-consciousness is gone; his consciousness is wholly focused outside himself.”
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Quote source: The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972) Section 1.3
“When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity. So, when we wholly concentrate, like a child in play, or an artist at work, then we share in the act of creating. We not only escape time, we escape our self-conscious selves.”
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Quote source: The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972) Section 1.3
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“My husband is my most ruthless critic. … Sometimes he will say, "It's been said better before." Of course. It's all been said better before. If I thought I had to say it better than anyone else, I'd never start. Better or worse is immaterial. The thing is that it has to be said; by me; ontologically. We each have to say it, to say it in our own way. Not of our own will, but as it comes through us. Good or bad, great or little: that isn't what human creation is about. It is that we have to try; to put it down in pigment, or words, or musical notations, or we die.”
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Quote source: The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972) Section 1.9
“Here we are living in a world of "identity crises," and most of us have no idea what an identity is. Half the problem is that an identity is something which must be understood intuitively, rather than in terms of provable fact. An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.”
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Quote source: The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972) Section 1.10
“We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way. We can give a child a self-image. But is this a good idea? Hitler did a devastating job at that kind of thing. So does Chairman Mao. … I haven't defined a self, nor do I want to. A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.”
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Quote source: The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972) Section 1.10
“I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.”
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Quote source: The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972) Section 1.14
“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
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Quote source: The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972) Section 1.14
“It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write the kind of books I do in order that I may try to set down glimpses of things that are on the other side of the intellect. We do not go around and discard the intellect, but we must go through and beyond it.”
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Quote source: The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972) Section 1.16
“How do we teach a child — our own, or those in a classroom — to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh; to love; to accept the fact that the most important questions a human being can ask do not have — or need — answers.”
— Madeleine L'Engle
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“Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, anymore than anything else important in life can be proved.”
— Madeleine L'Engle
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“When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth sings throughout the universe. The joy of writing or painting is much the same, and the insemination comes not from the artist himself but from his relationship with those he loves, with the whole world. All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is not such thing as a non-religious subject.”
— Madeleine L'Engle
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