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Muriel Rukeyser quotes: The fear of poetry is the fear.

The fear of poetry is the fear.

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.

I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.

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

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

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

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

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me.

Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me.

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: The journey is my home.

The journey is my home.

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: When I am dead, even then,I will still love you, I will wait in these poems,When I am dead, even thenI am still listening to you.

When I am dead, even then,
I will still love you, I will wait in these poems,
When I am dead, even then
I am still listening to you.

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

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

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: In all the cities of this yearI have longed for the other city.

In all the cities of this year
I have longed for the other city.

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery, the offering, and the pride.

I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery, the offering, and the pride.

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: I learned that I had been brought up as a protected, blindfolded daughter.

I learned that I had been brought up as a protected, blindfolded daughter.

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

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

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.

The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: Exchange is creation.

Exchange is creation.

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things.

Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things.

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: breathe in experience breathe out poetry

breathe in experience breathe out poetry

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: The truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.

The truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: Reality is the completion of experience ...

Reality is the completion of experience ...

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.

There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: The universe is made of stories, not atoms.

The universe is made of stories, not atoms.

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience.

Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience.

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: We hear the saints saying: Our brother the world. We hear the revolutionaries: Dare we win?

We hear the saints saying: Our brother the world. We hear the revolutionaries: Dare we win?

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.

Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.

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

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know ...

Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know ...

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: The world is made up of Stories, not Atoms.

The world is made up of Stories, not Atoms.

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: The universe is not made of atoms; it's made of stories.

The universe is not made of atoms; it's made of stories.

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: Local images have one kind of reality. 'U.S. 1' will, I hope, have that kind and another, too. Poetry can extend the document.

Local images have one kind of reality. 'U.S. 1' will, I hope, have that kind and another, too. Poetry can extend the document.

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure.

One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure.

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.

Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness

Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.

We are against war and the sources of war.
We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: One writes in order to feel ...

One writes in order to feel ...

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories.

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

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge ...

Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge ...

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: Only one man lived who could understand Gibbs's papers. That was Maxwell, and now he is dead.

Only one man lived who could understand Gibbs's papers. That was Maxwell, and now he is dead.

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

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

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: Their faces said : This is your home; and I .I never come home, I never go away.And they all answered : Stay.

Their faces said : This is your home; and I .
I never come home, I never go away.
And they all answered : Stay.

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

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

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be

However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.

The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: All the poems of our lives are not yet made.

All the poems of our lives are not yet made.

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: My lifetime listens to yours.

My lifetime listens to yours.

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: Dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality.

Dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality.

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.

The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: I speak to you. You speak to me. Is that fragile?

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

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: Try to live as if there were a God

Try to live as if there were a God

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: Flight is intolerable contradiction.

Flight is intolerable contradiction.

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we remember.

The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we remember.

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

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

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

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: I will try to be non-violentone more daythis morning, waking the world awayin the violent day.

I will try to be non-violent
one more day
this morning, waking the world away
in the violent day.

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: Women in drudgery knewThey must be one of four:Whores, artists, saints, and wives.There are composite livesthat women always live

Women in drudgery knew
They must be one of four:
Whores, artists, saints, and wives.
There are composite lives
that women always live

Muriel Rukeyser quotes: The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.