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Top 25 Meridel Le Sueur Quotes (2025 Update)

Meridel Le Sueur Quote: “It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur.”

1. “It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur.”

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Meridel Le Sueur Quote: “I am luminous with age.”

2. “I am luminous with age.”

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Meridel Le Sueur Quote: “Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life.”

3. “Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life.”

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Meridel Le Sueur Quote: “The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other.”

4. “The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other.”

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Meridel Le Sueur Quote: “Survival is a form of resistance.”

5. “Survival is a form of resistance.”

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Meridel Le Sueur Quote: “Hard times ain’t quit and we ain’t quit.”

6. “Hard times ain’t quit and we ain’t quit.”

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Meridel Le Sueur Quote: “These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.”

7. “These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.”

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Meridel Le Sueur Quote: “Suddenly many movements are going on within me, many things are happening, there is an almost unbearable sense of sprouting, of bursting encasements, of moving kernels, expanding flesh.”

8. “Suddenly many movements are going on within me, many things are happening, there is an almost unbearable sense of sprouting, of bursting encasements, of moving kernels, expanding flesh.”

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Meridel Le Sueur Quote: “Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together.”

9. “Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together.”

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Meridel Le Sueur Quote: “Linear thinking is patriarchal.”

10. “Linear thinking is patriarchal.”

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Meridel Le Sueur Quote: “They never die, who have the future in them.”

11. “They never die, who have the future in them.”

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Meridel Le Sueur Quote: “The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.”

12. “The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.”

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Meridel Le Sueur Quote: “It’s not the suffering of birth, death, love that the young reject, but the suffering of endless labor without dream, eating the spare bread in bitterness, being a slave without the security of a slave.”

13. “It’s not the suffering of birth, death, love that the young reject, but the suffering of endless labor without dream, eating the spare bread in bitterness, being a slave without the security of a slave.”

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Meridel Le Sueur Quote: “Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.”

14. “Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.”

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Meridel Le Sueur Quote: “Money is only money, beans tonight and steak tomorrow. So long as you can look yourself in the eye.”

15. “Money is only money, beans tonight and steak tomorrow. So long as you can look yourself in the eye.”

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Meridel Le Sueur Quote: “An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.”

16. “An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.”

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Meridel Le Sueur Quote: “Memory in America suffers amnesia.”

17. “Memory in America suffers amnesia.”

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Meridel Le Sueur Quote: “A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people.”

18. “A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people.”

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Meridel Le Sueur Quote: “The people always know that some of the grain will be good, some of the crop will be saved, some will return and bear the strength of the kernel, that from the bloodiest year some survive to outfox the frost.”

19. “The people always know that some of the grain will be good, some of the crop will be saved, some will return and bear the strength of the kernel, that from the bloodiest year some survive to outfox the frost.”

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Meridel Le Sueur Quote: “Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.”

20. “Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.”

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Meridel Le Sueur Quote: “I hope you will be a warrior and fierce for change so all can live.”

21. “I hope you will be a warrior and fierce for change so all can live.”

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Meridel Le Sueur Quote: “No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people.”

22. “No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people.”

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Meridel Le Sueur Quote: “Each generation must go further than the last or what’s the use in it?”

23. “Each generation must go further than the last or what’s the use in it?”

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Meridel Le Sueur Quote: “You can tell by looking at most people that the world remains a stone to them and a closed door.”

24. “You can tell by looking at most people that the world remains a stone to them and a closed door.”

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Meridel Le Sueur Quote: “Growth is not concerned with itself.”

25. “Growth is not concerned with itself.”

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Meridel Le Sueur Quote: “To be bound by hungers is a beautiful thing but to be bound by physical hungers only is too low a state for man.”

26. “To be bound by hungers is a beautiful thing but to be bound by physical hungers only is too low a state for man.”

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Meridel Le Sueur Quote: “He will lift up the limp bodies of the rabbits and show me how he caught them square between the eyes, and the bright bodies of male and female pheasants with shot in the breast and their necks hanging broken and their eyes half open in the voluptuous death he loves. He will be a knife leaning above me as he kisses me.”

27. “He will lift up the limp bodies of the rabbits and show me how he caught them square between the eyes, and the bright bodies of male and female pheasants with shot in the breast and their necks hanging broken and their eyes half open in the voluptuous death he loves. He will be a knife leaning above me as he kisses me.”

— Meridel Le Sueur

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