Muriel Rukeyser Quotes

There has been in our time a lack of reliance on language Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

There has been in our time a lack of reliance on language

— Muriel Rukeyser

A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world. Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.

— Muriel Rukeyser

The world is made up of Stories, not Atoms. Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

The world is made up of Stories, not Atoms.

— Muriel Rukeyser

All the poems of our lives are not yet made. Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

All the poems of our lives are not yet made.

— Muriel Rukeyser

My lifetime listens to yours. Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

My lifetime listens to yours.

— Muriel Rukeyser

I will try to be non-violent one more day this morning, waking Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

I will try to be non-violent one more day this morning, waking

— Muriel Rukeyser

Slowly I would get to pen and paper, Make my poems for Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

Slowly I would get to pen and paper, Make my poems for

— Muriel Rukeyser

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality. Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.

— Muriel Rukeyser

What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone

— Muriel Rukeyser

The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories. Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories.

— Muriel Rukeyser

Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me. Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me.

— Muriel Rukeyser

In time of crisis, we summon up our strength. Then, if we Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

In time of crisis, we summon up our strength. Then, if we

— Muriel Rukeyser

No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible

— Muriel Rukeyser

American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict….We are Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict….We are

— Muriel Rukeyser

Women in drudgery knew They must be one of four: Whores, artists, Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

Women in drudgery knew They must be one of four: Whores, artists,

— Muriel Rukeyser

I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment,

— Muriel Rukeyser

How can I look back and not speak of the stupid learning Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

How can I look back and not speak of the stupid learning

— Muriel Rukeyser

As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking

— Muriel Rukeyser

I am working out the vocabulary of my silence. Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.

— Muriel Rukeyser

We sit here, very different each from the other, until the passion Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

We sit here, very different each from the other, until the passion

— Muriel Rukeyser

The heavy sensual shoulders, the thighs, the blood-born flesh and earth turning Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

The heavy sensual shoulders, the thighs, the blood-born flesh and earth turning

— Muriel Rukeyser

Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be

— Muriel Rukeyser

The ‘idea’ for the poem, which may come as an image thrown Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

The ‘idea’ for the poem, which may come as an image thrown

— Muriel Rukeyser

Flight is intolerable contradiction. Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

Flight is intolerable contradiction.

— Muriel Rukeyser

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open. Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.

— Muriel Rukeyser

I speak to you. You speak to me. Is that fragile? Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

I speak to you. You speak to me. Is that fragile?

— Muriel Rukeyser

I am haunted by interrupted acts, introspective as a leper, enchanted by Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

I am haunted by interrupted acts, introspective as a leper, enchanted by

— Muriel Rukeyser

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling . . .. A Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling . . .. A

— Muriel Rukeyser

Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.

— Muriel Rukeyser

The statement of ideas in a poem may have to do with Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

The statement of ideas in a poem may have to do with

— Muriel Rukeyser

Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other. Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.

— Muriel Rukeyser

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry. Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

— Muriel Rukeyser

Never to despise in myself what I have been taught to despise. Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

Never to despise in myself what I have been taught to despise.

— Muriel Rukeyser

Try to live as if there were a God Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

Try to live as if there were a God

— Muriel Rukeyser

I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot

— Muriel Rukeyser

I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane. Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane.

— Muriel Rukeyser

Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but

— Muriel Rukeyser

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life

— Muriel Rukeyser

Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest

— Muriel Rukeyser

Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems. Muriel Rukeyser Picture Quote

Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.

— Muriel Rukeyser

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