Ripening: Selected Work
A source page for quotes linked to Meridel Le Sueur.
“Growth is not concerned with itself.”
“Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together.”
“No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people.”
“You can tell by looking at most people that the world remains a stone to them and a closed door.”
“Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life.”
“It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur.”
“Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.”
“Memory in America suffers amnesia.”
“The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other.”
“Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.”
“The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.”
“Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?”