Etel Adnan

The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.

— 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,…

— Etel Adnan

Do what your inner soul tells you to do, regardless of any money or success it will bring you.

— Etel Adnan

There are not millions of deaths. It happens millions of times that someone dies.

— Etel Adnan

I love contemporary poetry because it moves between what we call poetry and what we call philosophy. It joins these fields and…

— Etel Adnan

“Spring is dangerous, like love. And love survives the lovers.”

— Etel Adnan

“Love in all its forms is the most important matter that we will ever face, but also the most dangerous, the most…

— Etel Adnan

“Morning. Vast. Imprecision. Fog has covered everything in gray absolute. This has lasted. Doubt looms over the mind. Absence is harder to…

— Etel Adnan

Not seeing rivers is also another way of dying.

— Etel Adnan

There is in Ammiel Alcalay’s work an unabashed tenderness for the world as it is, and that makes him courageous, different.

— Etel Adnan

“Dear soul, am I only because I have been?”

— Etel Adnan

I always had a few people who liked what I did, and that was enough.

— Etel Adnan

“Morality is violence. An invisible violence at first. Love is a supreme violence, hidden deep in the darkness of our atoms. When…

— 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…

— Etel Adnan

I love rains which carry desires to oceans.

— Etel Adnan

if you aren't here your heart won't break in the same way.

— Etel Adnan