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…

- Meridel Le Sueur

Suddenly many movements are going on within me, many things are happening, there is an almost unbearable sense of sprouting, of bursting encasements,…

- Meridel Le Sueur

Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.

- Meridel Le Sueur

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

- Meridel Le Sueur

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…

- Meridel Le Sueur

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

- Meridel Le Sueur

Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit.

- Meridel Le Sueur

I am luminous with age.

- Meridel Le Sueur

Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.

- Meridel Le Sueur