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 language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression. — Etel Adnan Copy Share Image
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, and on the road. To hesitate; to go on, and ahead, and back, and up the stairs, and in one’s room. On the way, to notice that the mountain is still there. To lie and sleep,… — Etel Adnan Copy Share
Do what your inner soul tells you to do, regardless of any money or success it will bring you. — Etel Adnan Copy Share Image
There are not millions of deaths. It happens millions of times that someone dies. — Etel Adnan Copy Share Image
I love contemporary poetry because it moves between what we call poetry and what we call philosophy. It joins these fields and makes writing… — Etel Adnan Copy Share Image
“Love in all its forms is the most important matter that we will ever face, but also the most dangerous, the most unpredictable, the… — Etel Adnan Copy Share Image
“Morning. Vast. Imprecision. Fog has covered everything in gray absolute. This has lasted. Doubt looms over the mind. Absence is harder to accept than… — Etel Adnan Copy Share Image
There is in Ammiel Alcalay’s work an unabashed tenderness for the world as it is, and that makes him courageous, different. — Etel Adnan Copy Share Image
