Meridel Le Sueur Quotes

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

Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together.

I am luminous with age.

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.

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

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

Linear thinking is patriarchal.

They never die, who have the future in them.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.

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

Memory in America suffers amnesia.

Growth is not concerned with itself.

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

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

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

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.

They never die who have the future in them.