Madeleine L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time (1962)

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The work proves the craftsman.

In German: Das Werk lobt den Meister.

Madeleine L'Engle

There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin. This is the limited universe, the drying dissipating universe that we can help our children to avoid by providing them with 'explosive material capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly'.

Madeleine L'Engle

You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.

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Suddenly she knew. She knew! Love. That was what she had that IT did not have. She had Mrs. Whatsit's love, and her father's, and mother's, and the real Charles Wallace's love, and the twins', and Aunt Beast's. And she had her love for them. But how could she use it? What was she meant to do?

Madeleine L'Engle

God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.

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What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!

Dante

Madeleine L'Engle