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title: "1 Rise Like Quotes By Meridel Le Sueur"
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> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/meridel-le-sueur/lie-in-the-sun-with-the-child-in-your-flesh-shining-like-a-jewel/)

[Meridel Le Sueur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/meridel-le-sueur/)

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## More by Meridel Le Sueur

> [I am luminous with age.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/meridel-le-sueur/i-am-luminous-with-age/)

[Meridel Le Sueur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/meridel-le-sueur/)

> [Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/meridel-le-sueur/each-generation-must-go-further-than-the-last-or-what-s-the-use-in-it/)

[Meridel Le Sueur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/meridel-le-sueur/)

> [It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/meridel-le-sueur/it-was-the-bumble-bee-and-the-butterfly-who-survived-not-the-dinosaur/)

[Meridel Le Sueur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/meridel-le-sueur/)

> [No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/meridel-le-sueur/no-art-can-develop-until-it-penetrates-deeply-into-the-life-of-the/)

[Meridel Le Sueur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/meridel-le-sueur/)

> [Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/meridel-le-sueur/human-history-is-work-history-the-heroes-of-the-people-are-work-heroes/)

[Meridel Le Sueur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/meridel-le-sueur/)

> [Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/meridel-le-sueur/hard-times-ain-t-quit-and-we-ain-t-quit/)

[Meridel Le Sueur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/meridel-le-sueur/the-people-are-a-story-that-never-ends-a-river-that-winds-and-falls/)

[Meridel Le Sueur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/meridel-le-sueur/a-good-civilization-gives-the-greatest-possible-scope-to-the-common/)

[Meridel Le Sueur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/meridel-le-sueur/)

> [An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/meridel-le-sueur/an-abyss-seems-to-have-opened-between-the-intellectual-cosmopolites/)

[Meridel Le Sueur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/meridel-le-sueur/)

> [Linear thinking is patriarchal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/meridel-le-sueur/linear-thinking-is-patriarchal/)

[Meridel Le Sueur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/meridel-le-sueur/)

> [Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/meridel-le-sueur/literature-must-spring-from-the-deep-and-submerged-humus-of-our-life/)

[Meridel Le Sueur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/meridel-le-sueur/)

> [The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/meridel-le-sueur/the-body-repeats-the-landscape-they-are-the-source-of-each-other-and/)

[Meridel Le Sueur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/meridel-le-sueur/suddenly-many-movements-are-going-on-within-me-many-things-are/)

[Meridel Le Sueur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/meridel-le-sueur/)

> [“I hope you will be a warrior and fierce for change so all can live.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/meridel-le-sueur/i-hope-you-will-be-a-warrior-and-fierce-for-change-so-all-can-live/)

[Meridel Le Sueur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/meridel-le-sueur/what-happens-in-a-strike-happens-not-to-one-person-alone-it-is-a/)

[Meridel Le Sueur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/meridel-le-sueur/)

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