Meridel Le Sueur Quotes

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

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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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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.

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

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Religion was her theater, her dance, her wine, her song.

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My prairie people are my home
Bird I return flying to their breasts.

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

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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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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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I fall and burst beneath the sacred human tree.
Release my seed and let me fall.

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

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

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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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Who has stolen the pump handle key to water, boarded up the source?

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Surround of rainbows
Listen
The rain comes upon us
Restore us.

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

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Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.

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

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

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

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Our merchant society has been built upon a huge hypocrisy, a cutthroat competition which sets one man against another and at the same time an ideology mouthing such words as 'Humanity,' 'Truth,' the 'Golden Rule,' and such.

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

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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.

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