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Money is only money, beans tonight and steak tomorrow. So long as you can look yourself in the eye.
The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other.
Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together.
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.
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, like a stalk of corn athrob and aglisten in the heat. Lie like a mare panting with the dancing feet of colts against her sides. Sleep at night as the spring earth. Walk heavily as a wheat stalk at its full time bending towards the earth waiting for the reaper. Let your life swell downward so you become like a vase, a vessel. Let the unknown child knock and knock against you and rise like a dolphin within.
No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people.
They never die, who have the future in them.
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.
A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people.
You can tell by looking at most people that the world remains a stone to them and a closed door.
Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.
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.
It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur.
To be bound by hungers is a beautiful thing but to be bound by physical hungers only is too low a state for man.
Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life.
I am luminous with age.
I hope you will be a warrior and fierce for change so all can live.
