Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Kroeber Le Guinis an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry and essays. First published in the 1960s, her work has often depicted futuristic or imaginary alternative worlds in politics, the natural environment, gender, religion, sexuality and ethnography...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth21 October 1929
CountryUnited States of America
stars silence darkness
The word must be heard in silence; there must be darkness to see the stars.
dark small-changes giving
It is a terrible thing, this kindess that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have. We who are so rich, so full of strength, we end up with that small change. We have nothing else to give.
dark night thinking
We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.
dark hands
We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
stress skills darkness
To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.
inspirational dark light
To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.
light darkness shadow
When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
beautiful eye dark
The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men's eyes.
dark light sky
Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.
dark land cities
I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark.
dark light hands
It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.
eye thinking darkness
Darkness is only in the mortal eye, that thinks it sees, but sees not.
dark voice world
Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness of its own, you live in danger of losing your own worth to yourself. That's when you begin to listen to the voices from the other side, and to ask questions of failure and the dark.
gratitude grateful dark
To see a candle's light, one must take it into a dark place. This is the same as to see the good and be grateful, one must compare and contrast it with something worse - not better!