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The fear of poetry is the fear. — Muriel Rukeyser

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

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

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

Poet' had always sounded like a profession to me, or a talent. But the dead American [Muriel Rukeyser, The Life of Poetry] made it sound like a faith. — Ariel Gore

Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me. — Muriel Rukeyser

The journey is my home. — Muriel Rukeyser

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Exchange is creation. — Muriel Rukeyser

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

breathe in experience breathe out poetry — Muriel Rukeyser

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

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

Reality is the completion of experience ... — Muriel Rukeyser

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness — Muriel Rukeyser

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

One writes in order to feel ... — Muriel Rukeyser

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My lifetime listens to yours. — Muriel Rukeyser

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

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

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

Try to live as if there were a God — Muriel Rukeyser

Flight is intolerable contradiction. — Muriel Rukeyser

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

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

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

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

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

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