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> [I love contemporary poetry because it moves between what we call poetry and what we call philosophy. It joins these fields and makes writing more natural, as in how it is lived in the person. We don’t separate thinking from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/etel-adnan/i-love-contemporary-poetry-because-it-moves-between-what-we-call/)

[Etel Adnan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/etel-adnan/)

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## More by Etel Adnan

> [The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/etel-adnan/the-books-i-m-writing-are-houses-that-i-build-for-myself/)

[Etel Adnan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/etel-adnan/)

> [To read a lot of trash mixing the blood of war with business’s stench. To root out any happiness. To go out, and down,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/etel-adnan/to-read-a-lot-of-trash-mixing-the-blood-of-war-with-business-s-stench/)

[Etel Adnan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/etel-adnan/)

> [Do what your inner soul tells you to do, regardless of any money or success it will bring you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/etel-adnan/do-what-your-inner-soul-tells-you-to-do-regardless-of-any-money-or/)

[Etel Adnan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/etel-adnan/)

> [There are not millions of deaths. It happens millions of times that someone dies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/etel-adnan/there-are-not-millions-of-deaths-it-happens-millions-of-times-that/)

[Etel Adnan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/etel-adnan/)

> [I love contemporary poetry because it moves between what we call poetry and what we call philosophy. It joins these fields and makes writing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/etel-adnan/i-love-contemporary-poetry-because-it-moves-between-what-we-call/)

[Etel Adnan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/etel-adnan/)

> [“Spring is dangerous, like love. And love survives the lovers.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/etel-adnan/spring-is-dangerous-like-love-and-love-survives-the-lovers/)

[Etel Adnan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/etel-adnan/)

> [“Love in all its forms is the most important matter that we will ever face, but also the most dangerous, the most unpredictable, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/etel-adnan/love-in-all-its-forms-is-the-most-important-matter-that-we-will-ever/)

[Etel Adnan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/etel-adnan/)

> [“Morning. Vast. Imprecision. Fog has covered everything in gray absolute. This has lasted. Doubt looms over the mind. Absence is harder to accept than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/etel-adnan/morning-vast-imprecision-fog-has-covered-everything-in-gray-absolute/)

[Etel Adnan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/etel-adnan/)

> [Not seeing rivers is also another way of dying.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/etel-adnan/not-seeing-rivers-is-also-another-way-of-dying/)

[Etel Adnan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/etel-adnan/)

> [There is in Ammiel Alcalay’s work an unabashed tenderness for the world as it is, and that makes him courageous, different.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/etel-adnan/there-is-in-ammiel-alcalay-s-work-an-unabashed-tenderness-for-the/)

[Etel Adnan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/etel-adnan/)

> [“Dear soul, am I only because I have been?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/etel-adnan/dear-soul-am-i-only-because-i-have-been/)

[Etel Adnan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/etel-adnan/)

> [I always had a few people who liked what I did, and that was enough.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/etel-adnan/i-always-had-a-few-people-who-liked-what-i-did-and-that-was-enough/)

[Etel Adnan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/etel-adnan/)

> [“Morality is violence. An invisible violence at first. Love is a supreme violence, hidden deep in the darkness of our atoms. When a stream…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/etel-adnan/morality-is-violence-an-invisible-violence-at-first-love-is-a-supreme/)

[Etel Adnan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/etel-adnan/)

> [Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong to a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/etel-adnan/abstract-art-was-the-quivalent-of-poetic-expression-i-didn-t-need-to/)

[Etel Adnan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/etel-adnan/)

> [I love rains which carry desires to oceans.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/etel-adnan/i-love-rains-which-carry-desires-to-oceans/)

[Etel Adnan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/etel-adnan/)

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