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The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
Muriel Rukeyser
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Muriel Rukeyser
Age: 66 †
Born: 1913
Born: December 15
Died: 1980
Died: February 12
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Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.
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The journey is my home.
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I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.
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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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There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.
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I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.
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What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone
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The heavy sensual shoulders, the thighs, the blood-born flesh and earth turning into color, rocks into their crystals, water to sound, fire to form: life flickers uncounted into the supple arms of love.
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Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.
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In time of crisis, we summon up our strength. Then, if we are lucky, we are able to call every resource, every forgotten image that can leap to our quickening, every memory that can make us know our power. And this luck is more than it seems to be: it depends on the long preparation of the self to be used.
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Flight is intolerable contradiction.
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The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.
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Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually - that is, when you reach it, you will reach it intellectually too - but the way is through emotion, through what we call feeling.
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Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge.
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Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me.
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I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot
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The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories.
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Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness
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Women in drudgery knew They must be one of four: Whores, artists, saints, and wives. There are composite lives that women always live
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