Ursula K. Le Guin cytaty strona 3

„Zrozumieć, na jakie pytania nie ma odpowiedzi, i nie odpowiadać na nie – oto umiejętność najpotrzebniejsza w czasach napięć i ciemności.”

We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. (ang.) <br class="br">Źródło: Ursula K Le Guin's speech at National Book Awards http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/20/ursula-k-le-guin-national-book-awards-speech, theguardian.com, 20 listopada 2014.

„(…) była w tym spojrzeniu tradycja trzynastu tysięcy lat – sposób myślenia i styl życia tak stare, tak ugruntowane, tak logiczne i spójne, że dawały człowiekowi swobodę, autorytet, perfekcję dzikiego zwierzęcia, wielkiego i dziwnego stworzenia, które przygląda się człowiekowi ze swojej wiecznej teraźniejszości.”

Cykl Hain (Ekumena), Lewa ręka ciemności

„(…) za dar należy dziękować darem.”

Cykl Hain (Ekumena), Lewa ręka ciemności

Ursula K. Le Guin książka Dary

Źródło: Dary; tłum. Maciejka Mazan

„Źródłem kreatywności jest przede wszystkim przyjemność z poznawania uporządkowanej złożoności Natury, która sama w sobie jest pięknem.”

„Moja wyobraźnia czyni ze mnie człowieka, ale i ogłupia, otwiera przede mną świat i jednocześnie mnie z niego wygania…”

„Najbardziej znaczącym czynnikiem w życiu człowieka jest to, czy rodzi się mężczyzną, czy kobietą.”

Źródło: Otwarte przestworza i inne opowiadania (1996), przeł. Radosław Kot

„Ogień i strach to dobrzy słudzy, ale źli panowie.”

Cykl Hain (Ekumena), Lewa ręka ciemności

„Dopóki czytelnik jej nie otworzy, dopóty książka jest tylko zbiorem słów.”

Cykl Hain (Ekumena), Lewa ręka ciemności

„W naszej kulturze najbardziej przerażające jest to, jak pięknie potrafimy opisywać degradację i niszczenie naszego świata.”

„Aby słyszeć, należy milczeć.”

Źródło: Michał Hernes, Le Guin: Wracać wciąż do domu, esensja.pl, 3 listopada 2013 http://esensja.stopklatka.pl/ksiazka/wywiady/tekst.html?id=17347Ursula

„(…) odrobinka zła istnieje w najlepszych z nas, więc lepiej się do niego przyznać, a nie pielęgnować, by gniło w ciemnościach.”

Ursula K. Le Guin książka Dary

Źródło: Dary

„Cóż złego uczyniły im te drzewa? Czy muszą karać trawę za własne winy? Ludzie, którzy pustoszą ziemię ogniem z powodu waśni z innymi są przecież barbarzyńcami.”

Ursula K. Le Guin Ziemiomorze

Ziemiomorze, Najdalszy brzeg

„Człowiek, który nie żywi wstrętu do złej władzy, jest głupcem. A gdyby na świecie istniało coś takiego jak dobra władza, służenie jej byłoby wielką radością.”

„Posiadać moc oznacza służyć mocy.”

Cykl Hain (Ekumena), Lewa ręka ciemności

Ursula K. Le Guin książka Dary

Źródło: Dary

„Anarchista to ktoś, kto wybierając, zdaje sobie sprawę z odpowiedzialności, jaką ten wybór na niego nakłada.”

„Jestem częścią świata ludu Kesh, a on jest częściowo mną. Dlatego bardzo żal było mi kończyć pisanie tego dzieła i rozstawać się z tym światem, będącym w pewnym sensie moim domem.”

„Prawdziwa sztuka wymaga oddania całym sercem.”

Źródło: Michał Hernes, Le Guin: Wracać wciąż do domu, esensja.pl, 3 listopada 2013 http://esensja.stopklatka.pl/ksiazka/wywiady/tekst.html?id=17347Ursula

“Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.”

Ursula K. Le Guin: Cytaty po angielsku

“I’d rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.”

Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle

Section 5
Hainish Cycle, The Word for World Is Forest (1972)

“You’ll know what to say when the time comes. That’s the art, eh? What to say, and when to say it. And the rest is silence.”

Źródło: Earthsea Books, The Other Wind (2001), Chapter 2 “Palaces” (p. 79)

“There is nothing, nothing on Urras that we Anarresti need! We left with empty hands, a hundred and seventy years ago, and we were right. We took nothing. Because there is nothing here but States and their weapons, the rich and their lies, and the poor and their misery. There is no way to act rightly, with a clear heart, on Urras. There is nothing you can do that profit does not enter into, and fear of loss, and the wish for power. You cannot say good morning without knowing which of you is ‘superior’ to the other, or trying to prove it. You cannot act like a brother to other people, you must manipulate them, or command them, or obey them, or trick them. You cannot touch another person, yet they will not leave you alone. There is no freedom. It is a box—Urras is a box, a package, with all the beautiful wrapping of blue sky and meadows and forests and great cities. And you open the box, and what is inside it? A black cellar full of dust, and a dead man. A man whose hand was shot off because he held it out to others. I have been in Hell at last. Desar was right; it is Urras; Hell is Urras.”

“The Bones of the Earth” (p. 139)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)

“We live well in the houses—well enough. But we are ruled utterly by fear. There was a time we sailed in ships between the stars, and now we dare not go a hundred miles from home. We keep a little knowledge, and do nothing with it. But once we used that knowledge to weave the pattern of life like a tapestry across night and chaos. We enlarged the chances of life. We did man’s work.”

Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle

Źródło: Hainish Cycle, (1974), Chapter 11 (pp. 346-347)

“You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power. It is most perilous. It must follow knowledge, and serve need. To light a candle is to cast a shadow.”

Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle

Źródło: Hainish Cycle, City of Illusions (1967), Chapter 1

“Most civilisations, perhaps, look shinier in general terms and from several light-years away.”

Źródło: Earthsea Books, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), Chapter 3 (Master Hand)

“Her left hand reminded her of its existence, and she looked round to see what was scratching the heel of her hand. It was a tiny thistle, crouched in a crack in the sandstone, barely lifting its colorless spikes into the light and wind. It nodded stiffly as the wind blew, resisting the wind, rooted in rock. She gazed at it for a long time.”

Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle

Źródło: Hainish Cycle, The Telling (2000), Ch. 2, §2 (p. 32)

“But you knew them to be evil men—”
“Was I to join them therefore? To let their acts rule my own? I will not make their choices for them, nor will I let them make mine for me!”

Źródło: Earthsea Books, Tehanu (1990), Chapter 4, "Kalessin"

“The Revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all, or it is nothing. If it is seen as having any end, it will never truly begin. We can’t stop here. We must go on. We must take the risks.”

Źródło: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 4, "Magelight" (Arren and Ged)

“Long ago we parted,” said the slight, still man of the Fiia. “Longer ago we were one. What we are not, they are. What we are, they are not. Think of the sunlight and the grass and the trees that bear fruit, Semley; think that not all roads that lead down lead up as well.”

Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle

Źródło: Hainish Cycle, (1974), Chapter 12 (p. 359)

“Is power that—an emptiness?”

Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle

Prologue
Hainish Cycle, Rocannon’s World (1966)

“Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.”

Źródło: Earthsea Books, Tehanu (1990), Chapter 10, "The Dolphin"

“You exist: without name, without form. You cannot see the light of day; you cannot see the dark. You sold the green earth and the sun and stars to save yourself. But you have no self. All that which you sold, that is yourself. You have given everything for nothing. And so now you seek to draw the world to you, all that light and life you lost, to fill up your nothingness. But it cannot be filled. Not all the songs of earth, not all the stars of heaven, could fill your emptiness.”

“Dragonfly” (p. 201)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)

“The more defensive a society, the more conformist.”

Źródło: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 12, "The Dry Land"

“The world’s vast and strange, Hara, but no vaster and no stranger than our minds are. Think of that sometimes.”

Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle

Źródło: Hainish Cycle, City of Illusions (1967), Chapter 4

“So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.”

Źródło: Earthsea Books, The Other Wind (2001), Chapter 2 “Palaces” (p. 72)

“The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.”

Źródło: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 1, "The Rowan Tree"

“You have to help another person. But it’s not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what you’re doing. And to do any good at all, just believing you're right and your motives are good isn’t enough. You have to…be in touch. He isn’t in touch. No one else, no thing even, has an existence of its own for him; he sees the world only as a means to his end. It doesn’t make any difference if his end is good; means are all we’ve got.”

Źródło: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 5, "Sea Dreams"

“In the self-important, Falco reflected, there is always room for a little more self-importance.”

Ursula K. Le Guin książka The Lathe of Heaven

Źródło: The Lathe of Heaven (1971), Chapter 10 (Orr)

“How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn’t saved, isn’t taught?”

Ursula K. Le Guin książka The Eye of the Heron

Źródło: The Eye of the Heron (1978), Chapter 5 (p. 66)

“The experience was disagreeable. I began to feel like an atheist praying.”

“The Finder” (p. 67)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)

“He had almost yielded, but not quite. He had not consented. It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.”

Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle

Źródło: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 18 “On the Ice” (p. 252)

“Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it. We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother. For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man's toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free.”

Źródło: Earthsea Books, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), Chapter 7

“And the rest, all the rest. All the days and lights and winds and years that would have been, and that would not be, that should be and were not, because he was dead. Shot dead on the road, in the wind, at twenty-one. His mountains unclimbed, never to be climbed.”

Ursula K. Le Guin książka Lavinia

Źródło: Lavinia (2008), p. 184

“Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol twisted aside, and the lie come to be.”

Ursula K. Le Guin książka The Eye of the Heron

Źródło: The Eye of the Heron (1978), Chapter 10 (p. 151)

“They can keep their God, they can keep their Light. I want the world back. I want questions, not the answer. I want my own life back, and my own death!”

Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle

Źródło: Hainish Cycle, City of Illusions (1967), Chapter 2

“Manipulated, one manipulates others.”

“The Field of Vision” p. 243 (originally published in Galaxy, October 1973)
Short fiction, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)

“There’s no way to use power for good.”

Źródło: Earthsea Books, The Other Wind (2001), Chapter 2 “Palaces” (p. 92)

“The first lesson on Roke, and the last is, Do what is needful! And no more.”
“The lessons in between, then, must consist in learning what is needful.”

“The Finder” (p. 42)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)