Occupation: Writer Birth: February 22, 1900 Death: November 14, 1996
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, tha….
Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes..
It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur..
The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors..
Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit..
I am luminous with age..
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 bitte….
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, li….
Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life..
Linear thinking is patriarchal..
They never die, who have the future in them..
Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together..
What happens in a strike happens not to one person alone.... It is a crisis with meaning and potency for all and prophetic of a future. The elements ….
Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life..
You can tell by looking at most people that the world remains a stone to them and a closed door..
A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people..
Suddenly many movements are going on within me, many things are happening, there is an almost unbearable sense of sprouting, of bursting encasements,….
No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people..
Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?.
An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning..
The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other..