Muriel Rukeyser
Poet
1913-12-15
Quotes by Muriel Rukeyser
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As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.
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We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.
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I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery, the offering, and the pride.
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The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.
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The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.
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breathe in experience breathe out poetry
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No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.
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Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness
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What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?The world would split open.
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Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness
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breathe in experience breathe out poetry
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What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?The world would split open.
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No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.
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The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.
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I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery, the offering, and the pride.
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The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.
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As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.
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We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.
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One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure.
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Editors have grown timid... a brave advance is almost inevitably followed by quick back-tracking, generally by dilution and debasement of the original intention.
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