36 Quotes by Etel Adnan

Not seeing rivers is also another way of dying.

The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.

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

if you aren't here your heart won't break in the same way.

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

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?

I love rains which carry desires to oceans.

Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.

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