Quotes About Wonder

But if I knew everything, there would be no wonder, because what I believe in is far more than I know.

The artist, if he is not to forget how to listen, must retain the visionwhich includes angels and dragons and unicorns, and all the lovely creatures which our world would put in a bos marked, 'Children Only.

One foggy night I was walking the dogs down the lane and heard the geese, very close overhead, calling, calling, their marvellous strange cry, as they flew by. I think that is what our own best prayer must sound like when we send it up to heaven.

But I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the reader ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone's universe.

If the book will be too difficult for grownups, then you write it for children.

How did all this happen? Isn't it wonderful? I feel as though I were just being born! I'm not alone anymore! Do you realize what that means to me?

That's quite something, to be loved by someone like Mrs Whatsit.

Let us not try to understand the pattern, only rejoice in its beauty.

Que la terre est petite à qui la voit des cieux! Delille. How small is the earth to him who looks from heaven

There's more to life than just the things that can be explained by encyclopedias and facts. Facts alone are not adequate.

We must not take from our children—or ourselves—the truth that is in the world of the imagination.

When I think of the children's books I love best, I realize that they're written on a great many different levels. Now the first level is story. A good children's book must hold the reader's interest. It must be first and foremost a good story that will make the reader keep wanting to go on turning the pages. But underneath that good story is buried treasure. No one person will find all of the treasure, but each will discover special joys.

Que la terre est petite à qui la voit des cieux!

Que la terre est petite à qui la voit des cieux! Delille.

Mrs Whatsit shook her beautiful head.

you don't have to understand things for them to be.

I had never seen the end of day and the beginning of the night greet each other. We were caught in the loveliness between the two. A House Like a Lotus

Madeline L'engle

Why does anybody do anything? Mimi asked impatiently. Most of the time we don't know--any of us.

Empirically speaking, we are made of star stuff. Why aren't we talking more about that?

That this blue exists makes my life a remarkable one, just to have seen it. To have seen such beautiful things. To find oneself placed in their midst. Choiceless.

Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?" (Thoreau).

Isn't that the only way to curate a life? To live among things that make you gasp with delight?

The pieces I chose were based on one thing only — a gasp of delight. Isn't that the only way to curate a life?