Poems List

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

The Language of the Night

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You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

The Dispossessed

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The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we’re visiting, life.
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It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.
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Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

The Lathe of Heaven (1971) ch. 10

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Light is the left hand of darkness, and darkness the right hand of light.

The Left Hand of Darkness, 16

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Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it’s the readers who build that world in their own minds.
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As a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude.
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We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.
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Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.
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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (1929-2018) was an American writer whose works span science fiction, fantasy, young adult fiction, and essays. Born in Berkeley, California, Le Guin is widely regarded as one of the greatest speculative fiction writers of all time. She won numerous awards for her work, including multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards. Her most famous books include "A Wizard of Earthsea" (1968), "The Dispossessed" (1974), and "The Left Hand of Darkness" (1969). Le Guin was known for her thoughtful and humanistic approach to science fiction, using it to explore themes such as anarchism, ecology, and gender. She passed away in Portland, Oregon.