1,226 Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

You are like a lantern swathed and covered, hidden away in a dark place. Yet the light shines; they could not put out the light. They could not hide you.

A fantasy is a journey. It is a journey into the subconscious mind, just as psychoanalysis is. Like psychoanalysis, it can be dangerous; and it will change you.

Everything is old, here. We are old - the Masters.""You're not," Irian said. She thought him between thirty and forty[...]"But I came far. Miles can be years.

What you wrote above the nightingale is so interesting, Mr. Keats, please tell us more.

Can you walk the road your dream goes?Sometimes. Sometimes I am afraid to.Who is not....

The Tao Te Ching is partly in prose, partly in verse; but as we define poetry now, not by rhyme and meter but as a patterned intensity of language, the whole thing is poetry. I wanted to catch that poetry, its terse, strange beauty. Most translations have caught meanings in their net, but prosily, letting the beauty slip through. And in poetry, beauty is no ornament; it is the meaning. It is the truth. We have that on good authority.

He had made follow him. He had called her by her name, and she had come crouching to his hand.

It's so much easier to blame the grownups than to be one.

To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.