Rukeyser Quotes
Collection of top 60 famous quotes about Rukeyser
Rukeyser Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Rukeyser quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
The fear of poetry is the fear.
— Muriel Rukeyser
In Wall Street, the only thing that's hard to explain is next week.
— Louis 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
I never make a prediction that can be proved wrong within 24 hours.
— Louis Rukeyser
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 yearI 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 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
Fifteen cents of every twenty-cent stamp goes for storage.
— Louis 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
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
The world is made up of Stories, not Atoms.
— Muriel Rukeyser
Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know ...
— 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
Only one man lived who could understand Gibbs's papers. That was Maxwell, and now he is dead.
— Muriel Rukeyser
Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge ...
— Muriel Rukeyser
The world is not made of molecules, the world is 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 writes in order to feel ...
— Muriel Rukeyser
We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and the sources of poetry. — Muriel Rukeyser
Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness
— Muriel Rukeyser
The universe is not made of atoms; it's made of stories.
— Muriel Rukeyser
Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.
— Muriel Rukeyser
One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure.
— Muriel Rukeyser
The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.
— 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
Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.
— Muriel Rukeyser
All the poems of our lives are not yet made.
— Muriel Rukeyser
My lifetime listens to yours.
— 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
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 best way to keep money in perspective is to have some.
— Louis 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
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
I will try to be non-violentone more day
this morning, waking the world away
in the violent day. — Muriel Rukeyser
Women in drudgery knewThey 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