Etel Adnan

Etel Adnan (1925-2021) was a Lebanese writer. She is a poet, prose writer, and painter. She was born in Beirut in 1925. She left Lebanon in 1976. She later came to live in Paris and afterwards in the United States. She often includes visual elements such as sign or arrows in her writings.

Wisdom & Quotes

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

Abel Muzorewa