"In this he saw that Ogion had been right: the shadow could not draw on his power, so long as he was turned against it.












Judgement is poverty.

More Ursula K. Le Guin quotes
"Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it
"Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
"I never knew anybody, anywhere I have been, who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details, the way a pla...
"What was and what may be lie, like children whose faces we cannot see, in the arms of silence. All we have is here, now.
"It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.
"Without war there are no heroes.""What harm would that be?""Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.
"Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.
"It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.
"Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the ch...
"This was a great magic. Festin had no more performed it than has any man who in exile or danger longs for the earth and waters of his home, seeing and...
"In diversity is life and where there's life there's hope, was the general sum of his creed, a modest one to be sure.