Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Etel Adnan

Lebanese American Writer, Poet and Essayist

"There is a dialectical relation between one’s life and one’s work. The former obviously influences the latter, but one’s work also becomes an influence on one’s life. It is atwo way affair, a mysterious process where what we call life and what we call creation merge, and do not merge, cross feed each other."

"If Paris Sama fatal drank a large dose of it gladly and I finished my life."

"Let's not feed the imagination matters relating to the friendship"

"Does the memory of its own laws?"

"Is the purpose of the window that keeps you on the inside, or open to the outside?"

"It may be telling the truth sometimes the smartest formula for communicating erroneous information."

"Beware of words. Because it is easy to change the meaning and create misunderstanding tormented."

"Morning. Vast. Imprecision. Fog has covered everything in gray absolute. This has lasted. Doubt looms over the mind. Absence is harder to accept than death."

"My heart narrows fear of the following."

"There are negative forms of happiness."

"There is always feast where misery resident."

"We are then like some young trees whose branches grow in separate directions, giving the impression that the stem will break apart under opposite pulls."

"We feel euphoria in more urban poor."