Meridel Le Sueur Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Meridel Le Sueur
The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other. — Meridel Le Sueur
A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people. — Meridel Le Sueur
The people are a story that never ends,
A river that winds and falls and gleams erect in many dawns;
Lost in deep gulleys, it turns to dust, rushes in the spring freshet,
Emerges to the sea. The people are a story that is a long incessant
Coming alive from the earth in better wheat, Percherons,
Babies, and engines, persistent and inevitable.
The people always know that some of the grain will be good,
Some of the crop will be saved, some will return and
Bear the strength of the kernel, that from the bloodiest year
Some survive to outfox the frost. — Meridel Le Sueur
Lie in the sun with the child in your flesh shining like a jewel. Dream and sing, pagan, wise in your vitals. Stand still like a fat budding tree, like a stalk of corn athrob and aglisten in the heat. Lie like a mare panting with the dancing feet of colts against her sides. Sleep at night as the spring earth. Walk heavily as a wheat stalk at its full time bending towards the earth waiting for the reaper. Let your life swell downward so you become like a vase, a vessel. Let the unknown child knock and knock against you and rise like a dolphin within. — Meridel Le Sueur
Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life. — Meridel Le Sueur
The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors. — Meridel Le Sueur
Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes. — Meridel Le Sueur
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. — Meridel Le Sueur
You can tell by looking at most people that the world remains a stone to them and a closed door. — Meridel Le Sueur
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. — Meridel Le Sueur
To be bound by hungers is a beautiful thing but to be bound by physical hungers only is too low a state for man. — Meridel Le Sueur
An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning. — Meridel Le Sueur
Linear thinking is patriarchal. — Meridel Le Sueur
Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together. — Meridel Le Sueur
Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit. — Meridel Le Sueur
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. — Meridel Le Sueur
Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it? — Meridel Le Sueur
What happens in a strike happens not to one person alone ... It is a crisis with meaning and potency for all and prophetic of a future. The elements in crisis are the same, there is a fermentation that is identical. The elements are these: a body of men, women and children, hungry; an organization of feudal employers out to break the back of unionization; and the government Labor Board sent to "negotiate" between this hunger and this greed. — Meridel Le Sueur
Growth is not concerned with itself. — Meridel Le Sueur
No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people. — Meridel Le Sueur
Money is only money, beans tonight and steak tomorrow. So long as you can look yourself in the eye. — Meridel Le Sueur