Great Throughts Treasury

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Madeleine L’Engle

American Novelist, Poet, Short Story Writer best known for novel "A Wrinkle In Time" winning the John Newbery Medal

"You see, though we travel together, we travel alone."

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

"You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard."

"You've got to learn to walk through a pigpen and not get dirty."