Quote Time!
Thanks to the Chicago library system, I've realized Ursula K. LeGuin has a *lot* more work out there than I've read. So I am fixing this. I also finally got my hands on The Language of the Night, so here are some nifty quotes from it.
"The way of art, after all, is neither to cut adrift from the emotions, the senses, the body, etc., and sail off into the void of pure meaning, nor to blind the mind's eye and wallow in irrational, amoral meaninglessness - but to keep open the tenuous, difficult, essential connections between the two extremes. To connect. To connect the idea with value, sensation with intuition, cortex with cerebellum."
(And I would say Sticky One with Shining Body. Just sayin'. Although I also think the perception of the "extremes" is an attitude of this culture, and not actually true.)
And this, from "Talking about Writing", which I read when I was quite a bit younger and still find nifty - a response to that whole "write what you know" thing.
"Who do you think knows about my own imaginary countries, if I don't?"
That one inspired a poem awhile back.
"The way of art, after all, is neither to cut adrift from the emotions, the senses, the body, etc., and sail off into the void of pure meaning, nor to blind the mind's eye and wallow in irrational, amoral meaninglessness - but to keep open the tenuous, difficult, essential connections between the two extremes. To connect. To connect the idea with value, sensation with intuition, cortex with cerebellum."
(And I would say Sticky One with Shining Body. Just sayin'. Although I also think the perception of the "extremes" is an attitude of this culture, and not actually true.)
And this, from "Talking about Writing", which I read when I was quite a bit younger and still find nifty - a response to that whole "write what you know" thing.
"Who do you think knows about my own imaginary countries, if I don't?"
That one inspired a poem awhile back.