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Ursula K. Le Guin _ Lavinia
I will not go with you, nor will I be a slave of any Greek. The Earth Mother keeps me here. And you must go a long way for a long time, you must go, my sweet husband until at last, you come to the Western Land. There you will be a king and have a queen. No tears for me, but let your love guard our sun!
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Ursula K. Le Guin _ Lavinia
The nod of a head is such a small thing, it can mean so little, yet it is the gesture of assent that allows, that makes to be. The nod is the gesture of power, the yes. The numen, the presence of the sacred, is called by its name
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Ursula K. Le Guin _ Lavinia
Bright fame, bright glory will crown Lavinia. But she brings her people war.
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Ursula K. Le Guin _ Lavinia
Not even need and love can defeat fate, Lavinia. Aeneas' gift is to know his fate, what he must do, and do it. In spite of need. In spite of love.
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Ursula K. Le Guin _ Lavinia
It's not death that allows us to understand one another, but poetry.
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Ursula K. Le Guin _ Lavinia
It's a good place for a child, the woods. You don't learn much about people, but you learn silence. Patience. And that there's nothing much to fear in the wilderness-less than there is on a farm or in the city.
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Ursula K. Le Guin _ Lavinia
Where man goes, trees die; or, to paraphrase Tacitus, we make a desert and call it progress.
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Ursula K. Le Guin _ Lavinia
She's pious." By that word I meant responsible, faithful to duty, open to awe.
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Ursula K. Le Guin _ Lavinia
I remember Aeneas' words as I remember the poet's words. I remember every word because they are the fabric of my life, the warp I am woven on. All my life since Aeneas' death might seem a weaving torn out of the loom unfinished, a shapeless tangle of threads making nothing, but it is not so; for my mind returns as the shuttle returns always to the starting place, finding the pattern, going on with it. I was a spinner, not a weaver, but I have learned to weave.
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Ursula K. Le Guin _ Lavinia
My mother was mad, but I was not. My father was old, but I was young. Like Spartan Hellen, I caused a war. She caused hers by letting men who wanted her take her. I caused mine because I wouldn't be given, wouldn't be taken, but chose my man and my fate.
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Ursula K. Le Guin _ Lavinia
Justice, mercy, does Mars care for them?
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Ursula K. Le Guin _ Lavinia
We who are called royal are those who speak for our people to the powers of the earth and sky, as those powers transmit their will through us to the people. We are go-betweens. The chief duty of a king is to perform the rites of praise and placation as they should be performed, to observe care and ceremony and so understand and make known the will of the powers that are greater than we are. It is the king who tells the farmer when to plow, when to plant, when to harvest, when the cattle should go up to the hills and when they should return to the valleys, as he learns these things from his experience and his service at the altars of earth and sky. In the same way it is the mother of the family who tells her household when to rise, what work to do, what food to prepare and cook, and when to sit to eat it, having learned these things from her experience and her service at the altars of her Lares and Penates. So peace is maintained and things go well, in the kingdom and in the house. Both Aeneas and I had grown up in this responsibility, and it was dear to us both."
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