“We learn to see and speak, as children, primarily by imitation. The artist is merely the one who goes on learning after growing up. A good learner will finally learn the hardest thing: how to see one’s own world, how to speak one’s own words.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin - The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction (HarperCollins, 1989). (via literary-labyrinth)
February 2011
“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” —(via 1beauty)
— Madeleine L’Engle” —(via 1beauty)
