Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes About Perception

Quotes about: Perception

• As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Compassion, Grieving

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.58, Ultramarine Publishing

• Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Drama, Doors, Perception

  "Ursula K. Le Guin, The Art of Fiction No. 221". Interview with John Wray, www.theparisreview.org. Fall 2013.

• It win be a device that will permit communication without any time interval between two points in space. The device will not transmit messages, of course; simultaneity is identity. But to our perceptions, that simultaneity will function as a transmission, a sending. So we will be able to use it to talk between worlds, without the long waiting for the message to go and the reply to return that electromagnetic impulses require. It is really a very simple matter. Like a kind of telephone.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Communication, Winning, Simple

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