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Top 15 Etel Adnan Quotes (2025 Update)

Etel Adnan Quote: “Not seeing rivers is also another way of dying.”

1. “Not seeing rivers is also another way of dying.”

Etel Adnan Quote: “The books I’m writing are houses that I build for myself.”

2. “The books I’m writing are houses that I build for myself.”

Etel Adnan Quote: “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 feeling in real life, so why should we separate it in writing?”

3. “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 feeling in real life, so why should we separate it in writing?”

Etel Adnan Quote: “Spring is dangerous, like love. And love survives the lovers.”

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

Etel Adnan Quote: “Do what your inner soul tells you to do, regardless of any money or success it will bring you.”

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

Etel Adnan Quote: “Memory and time, both immaterial, are rivers with no banks and constantly merging. Both escape our will, though we depend on them. Measured but measured by whom or by what? The one is inside, the other, outside or so it seems, but is that true? Time seems also buried deep in us but where? Memory is right here, in the head, but it can exit, abandon that head, leave it behind, disappear. Memory, a sanctuary of infinite patience.”

6. “Memory and time, both immaterial, are rivers with no banks and constantly merging. Both escape our will, though we depend on them. Measured but measured by whom or by what? The one is inside, the other, outside or so it seems, but is that true? Time seems also buried deep in us but where? Memory is right here, in the head, but it can exit, abandon that head, leave it behind, disappear. Memory, a sanctuary of infinite patience.”

Etel Adnan Quote: “The day is not made of light, but of will.”

7. “The day is not made of light, but of will.”

Etel Adnan Quote: “Love in all its forms is the most important matter that we will ever face, but also the most dangerous, the most unpredictable, the most maddening. But it is also the only salvation I know of.”

8. “Love in all its forms is the most important matter that we will ever face, but also the most dangerous, the most unpredictable, the most maddening. But it is also the only salvation I know of.”

Etel Adnan Quote: “Terror is our collective failure. Life is nature’s triumph.”

9. “Terror is our collective failure. Life is nature’s triumph.”

Etel Adnan Quote: “There are not millions of deaths. It happens millions of times that someone dies.”

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

Etel Adnan Quote: “In the green escape of my palace, over a bridge, under a canopy of opalescent light, through there, between dark branches and their shivering leaves, I’m lost in the scent of yellow roses, arrested by the range’s filtering light.”

11. “In the green escape of my palace, over a bridge, under a canopy of opalescent light, through there, between dark branches and their shivering leaves, I’m lost in the scent of yellow roses, arrested by the range’s filtering light.”

Etel Adnan Quote: “It is a sentiment of tremendous truth and simplicity, yet tremendously difficult for the mind to metabolize – we remain material creatures, spiritually sundered by the fact of our borrowed atoms, which we will each return to the universe, to the stardust that made us, despite our best earthly efforts.”

12. “It is a sentiment of tremendous truth and simplicity, yet tremendously difficult for the mind to metabolize – we remain material creatures, spiritually sundered by the fact of our borrowed atoms, which we will each return to the universe, to the stardust that made us, despite our best earthly efforts.”

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

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

Etel Adnan Quote: “Writing is drawing, drawing is writing. Because it’s the same gesture. They’re close already.”

14. “Writing is drawing, drawing is writing. Because it’s the same gesture. They’re close already.”

Etel Adnan Quote: “Beauty, it’s an inner sense, and it makes us happy. It’s not complicated, we need it.”

15. “Beauty, it’s an inner sense, and it makes us happy. It’s not complicated, we need it.”

Etel Adnan Quote: “Their women only exert indirect powers over them, powers that seem ineffective, or else are so strong that they, the men, can’t recognize them as such. But a woman who stands up to them and looks them in the eye is a tree to be cut down, and they cut it down. She falls with the sound of dead wood which disappears among the perfidious murmurings of the city, and to the smirking of other women who are satisfied with the male victories.”

16. “Their women only exert indirect powers over them, powers that seem ineffective, or else are so strong that they, the men, can’t recognize them as such. But a woman who stands up to them and looks them in the eye is a tree to be cut down, and they cut it down. She falls with the sound of dead wood which disappears among the perfidious murmurings of the city, and to the smirking of other women who are satisfied with the male victories.”

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