A Wizard of Earthsea Quotes

“It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry, the craft in a man’s hand and the wisdom in a tree’s root: they all arise together. My name, and yours, and the true name of the sun, or a spring of water, or an unborn child, all are syllables of the great word that is very slowly spoken by the shining of the stars. There is no other power. No other name.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry, the craft in a man’s hand and the wisdom in a tree’s root: they all arise together. My name, and yours, and the true name of the sun, or a spring of water, or an unborn child, all are syllables of the great word that is very slowly spoken by the shining of the stars. There is no other power. No other name.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“It was the idea of writing with a specific audience in mind or a specific age of reader that scared me off.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“To light a candle is to cast a shadow . . .”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“Ged saw all these things from outside and apart, alone, and his heart was very heavy in him, though he would not admit to himself that he was sad. As night fell he still lingered in the streets, reluctant to go back to the inn. He heard a man and a girl talking together merrily as they came down the street past him towards the town square, and all at once he turned, for he knew the man's voice.

He followed and caught up with the pair, coming up beside them in the late twilight lit only by distant lantern-gleams. The girl stepped back, but the man stared at him and then flung up the staff he carried, holding it between them as a barrier to ward off the threat or act of evil. And that was somewhat more than Ged could bear. His voice shook a little as he said, "I thought you would know me, Vetch."

Even then Vetch hesitated for a moment.

"I do know you," he said, and lowered the staff and took Ged's hand and hugged him round the shoulders-" I do know you! Welcome, my friend, welcome! What a sorry greeting I gave you, as if you were a ghost coming up from behind– and I have waited for you to come, and looked for you-”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“Solo en el silencio la palabra, solo en la oscuridad la luz, solo en la muerte la vida; el brillo del halcón brilla en el cielo vacío.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“Yet I have an idea of what you should do. It is a hard thing to say to you.” Ged’s silence demanded truth, and Ogion said at last, “You must turn around.” “Turn around?” “If you go ahead, if you keep running, wherever you run you will meet danger and evil, for it drives you, it chooses the way you go. You must choose. You must seek what seeks you. You must hunt the hunter.” Ged said nothing.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“When you know the fourfoil in all its seasons root and leaf and flower, by sight and scent and seed, then you may learn its true name, knowing its being: which is more than its use. What, after all, is the use of you? or of myself? Is Gont Mountain useful, or the Open Sea?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“По-късно, когато Гед размишляваше за тази нощ, стана му ясно, че ако никой не го бе докоснал, докато лежеше бездиханен, ако никой не го бе повикал по някакъв начин, той щеше да си отиде завинаги. Спаси го единствено нямата, инстинктивна мъдрост на звяра, който ближеше ранения си другар, за да го успокои. Но в тази мъдрост Гед видя нещо сродно със собствената си сила, нещо дълбоко колкото самото магьосничество. От този момент той повярва, че мъдър е онзи, който никога не се отделя от останалите живи същества, говорящи или не. След това дълги години се стремеше да научи онова, което може да се научи в мълчание от очите на животните, от полета на птиците, от бавното полюшване на клоните.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“On the dock Yarrow stood and watched them go, as sailors’ wives and sisters stand on all the shores of all Earthsea watching their men go out on the sea, and they do not wave or call aloud, but stand still in hooded cloak of grey or brown, there on the shore that dwindles smaller and smaller from the boat while the water grows wide between.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“In other ways my story didn’t follow the tradition. Its subversive elements attracted little attention, no doubt because I was deliberately sneaky about them. A great many white readers in 1967 were not ready to accept a brown-skinned hero. But they weren’t expecting one. I didn’t make an issue of it, and you have to be well into the book before you realize that Ged, like most of the characters, isn’t white.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“Despite what some adults seem to think, teenagers are fully human. And some of them read as intensely and keenly as if their life depended on it. Sometimes maybe it does.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“Later, when Ged thought back upon that night, he knew that had none had touched him when he lay thus spirit-lost, had none called him back in some way, he might have been lost for good. It was only the dumb instinctive wisdom of the beast who licks his hurt companion to comfort him, and yet in that wisdom Ged saw something akin to his own power, something that went as deep as wizardry. From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“To hear, one must be silent”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“Ged stood still a while, like one who has received great news, and must enlarge his spirit to receive it.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“- Si continúas así, si sigues huyendo, dondequiera que huyas siempre encontrarás el peligro y el mal, porque es ella la que te lleva, la que elige tu camino. Eres tú quien ha de elegir. Tienes que hostigar a quien te hostiga. Tienes que perseguir al cazador. - Ogión”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Un mago de Terramar I

“Мокър и навъсен, Гед се сви сред капещите храсти, като се чудеше какъв смисъл има да притежаваш власт, ако си твърде мъдър, за да я използваш, и съжаляваше, че не беше отишъл чирак при онзи стар гадател на времето от котловината, където поне щеше да спи сух”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“But the death of a great mage, who has many times in his life walked on the dry steep hillsides of death’s kingdom, is a strange matter: for the dying man goes not blindly, but surely, knowing the way.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“As he came to the bank Ogion, waiting, reached out his hand and clasping the boy’s arm whispered to him his true name: Ged.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“Under his feet he felt the hillroots going down and down into the dark, and over his head he saw the dry, far fires of the stars. Between, all things were his to order, to command. He stood at the center of the world.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“The tongue they speak there is not like any spoken in the Archipelago or the other Reaches, and they are a savage people, white-skinned, yellow-haired, and fierce, liking the sight of blood and the smell of burning towns.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“The little Otak was hiding in the rafters of the house, as it did when strangers entered. There it stayed while the rain beat on the walls and the fire sank down and the night wearing slowly along left the old woman nodding by the hearthpit. Then the otak crept down and came to Ged where he lay stretched stiff and still upon the bed. It began to lick his hands and wrists, long and patiently, with its dry leaf-brown tongue. Crouching beside his head it licked his temple, his scarred cheek, and softly his closed eyes. And very slowly under that soft touch Ged roused. He woke, not knowing where he had been or where he was or what was the faint grey light in the air about him, which was the light of dawn coming to the world. Then the otak curled up near his shoulder as usual, and went to sleep.

Later, when Ged thought back upon that night, he knew that had none touched him when he lay thus spirit-lost, had none called him back in some way, he might have been lost for good. It was only the dumb instinctive wisdom of the beast who licks his hurt companion to comfort him, and yet in that wisdom Ged saw something akin to his own power, something that went as deep as wizardry. From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“Encender una vela es proyectar una sombra...”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“Later, when Ged thought back upon that night, he knew that had none had touched him when he lay thus spirit-lost, had none called him back in some way, he might have been lost for good. It was only the dumb instinctive wisdom of the beast who licks his hurt companion to comfort him, and yet in that wisdom Ged saw something akin to his own power, something that went as deep as wizardry. From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the greet slow gestures of trees.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“A medida que un hombre adquiere más poder y sabiduría, se le estrecha el camino, hasta que al fin no elige, y hace pura y simplemente lo que tiene que hacer...”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“The path never reached it, though it always seemed to be about to.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“But Vetch, who had not done so lightly, said, “Her name is safe with you as mine is. And, besides, you knew it without my telling you . . .”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“If he would not be a stick whirled and whelmed in the stream, he must be the stream itself, all of it, from its spring to its sinking in the sea.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“The powers she serves are not the powers I serve: I do not know her will, but I know she does not will me well. Ged, listen to me now. Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light? This sorcery is not a game we play for pleasure or for praise. Think of this: that every word, every act of our Art is said and is done either for good, or for evil. Before you speak or do you must know the price”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“Akıllıya soru gerekmez; aptal ise boşuna sorar." -38”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea