Poems List
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.
Rocks have their dreams, and the earth changes. . . .But when the mind becomes conscious, when the rate of evolution speeds up, then you have to be careful. Careful of the world. You must learn the way. You must learn the skills, the art, the limits. A conscious mind must be part of the whole, intentionally and carefully--as the rock is part of the whole unconsciously. Do you see? Does it mean anything to you?
Secondhand experience breaks down a block from the car lot.
The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
The great authors share their souls with us— “literally.”
The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.
The king was pregnant.
The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours.
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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (1929-2018) foi uma escritora americana cujos trabalhos abrangem ficção científica, fantasia, ficção juvenil e ensaios. Nascida em Berkeley, Califórnia, Le Guin é amplamente considerada uma das maiores escritoras de ficção especulativa de todos os tempos. Ela ganhou inúmeros prêmios por suas obras, incluindo múltiplos Prêmios Hugo e Nebula. Seus livros mais famosos incluem "O
Nome do Mundo" (1968), "Os
Despossuídos" (1974) e "A
Mão Esquerda da Escuridão" (1969). Le Guin era conhecida por sua abordagem reflexiva e humanista à ficção científica, usando-a para explorar temas como anarquismo, ecologia e gênero. Ela faleceu em Portland, Oregon.