Meridel Le Sueur Quotes

#1. The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other.

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#2. Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.

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#3. A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people.

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#4. It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur.

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#5. I am luminous with age.

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#6. Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit.

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#7. They never die, who have the future in them.

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#8. To be bound by hungers is a beautiful thing but to be bound by physical hungers only is too low a state for man.

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#9. Growth is not concerned with itself.

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#10. Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.

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#11. Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together.

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#12. Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?

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#13. An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.

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#14. The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

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#15. You can tell by looking at most people that the world remains a stone to them and a closed door.

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#16. Suddenly many movements are going on within me, many things are happening, there is an almost unbearable sense of sprouting, of bursting encasements, of moving kernels, expanding flesh.

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#17. These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.

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#18. No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people.

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#19. Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life.

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#20. Linear thinking is patriarchal.

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#21. Money is only money, beans tonight and steak tomorrow. So long as you can look yourself in the eye.

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#22. It's not the suffering of birth, death, love that the young reject, but the suffering of endless labor without dream, eating the spare bread in bitterness, being a slave without the security of a slave.

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