Quotes about Inspiration
We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.
— Madeleine L'Engle
In reading we must become creators.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.
— Madeleine L'Engle
When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference.
— Madeleine L'Engle
It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts...
— Madeleine L'Engle
To be half a century plus is wonderfully exciting, because I haven't lost any of my past, and I am free to stand on the rock of all that the past has taught me as I look to the future.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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
The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught...What a teacher can do...in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so that it can burn. As far as I'm concerned, this providing of oxygen is one of the noblest of all vocations.
— Madeleine L'Engle