Civilization Quotes by Meridel Le Sueur

I am luminous with age.

— Meridel Le Sueur

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

— Meridel Le Sueur

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

— Meridel Le Sueur

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

— Meridel Le Sueur

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

— Meridel Le Sueur

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

— 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,…

— 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

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

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

— Meridel Le Sueur

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

— Meridel Le Sueur