"Lords of fire and earth and water,Lords of moon and wind and sky,Come now to the Old Man's daughter,Come from fathers long gone by.Bring blue from a d...

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The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.
More Madeleine L'Engle quotes
"Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!
"In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things we have forgotten, and some of the terrible things ...
"As long as we know what it's about, then we can have the courage to go wherever we are asked to go, even if we fear that the road may take us through ...
"The artist cannot hold back; it is impossible, because writing, or any other discipline of art, involves participation in suffering, in the ills and t...