Madeleine L'Engle Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Like and equal are two entirely different things.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Two, Different, Language

  Madeleine L’Engle (2014). “A Wrinklein Time Quintet”, p.64, Obelix Books

• We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.

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  Thinking, Able, Way

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.35, Convergent Books

• poets are born knowing the language of angels

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  Angel, Knowing, Language

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.171, Macmillan

• In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s a very strict rhythm or meter…And each line has to end with a rigid pattern. And if the poet does not do it exactly this way, it is not a sonnet…But within this strict form the poet has complete freedom to say whatever he wants…You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.

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  Believe, Writing, Lines

• Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Aunt, Simple

• Language changes. If it does not change, like Latin it dies. But we need to be aware that as our language changes, so does our theology change, particularly if we are trying to manipulate language for a specific purpose. That is what is happening with our attempts at inclusive language, which thus far have been inconclusive and unsuccessful.

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  Latin, Trying, Doe

• Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with life on another planet, it will be through music, not through language or words.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, May, Language

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.34, Convergent Books

• If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Language, Mankind, Humans

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.13, Open Road Media

• The primary needs can be filled without language. We can eat, sleep, make love, build a house, bear children, without language. But we cannot ask questions. We cannot ask, 'Who am I? Who are you? Why?

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Sleep, House

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.117, Open Road Media

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