The Compass Rose Quotes

“...you play the instrument you have.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Compass Rose

“The backside of heroism is often rather sad; women and servants know that. They know also that the heroism may be no less real for that. But achievement is smaller than men think. What is large is the sky, the earth, the sea, the soul.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Compass Rose

“I am Rosa. I am the rose. The rose, I am the rose. The rose with no flower, the rose all thorns, the mind he made, the hand he touched, the winter rose.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Compass Rose

“Do you realise,’ the phytolinguist will say to the aesthetic critic, ‘that they couldn’t even read Eggplant?’ And they will smile at our ignorance, as they pick up their rucksacks and hike on up to read the newly deciphered lyrics of the lichen on the north face of Pike’s Peak.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Compass Rose