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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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More quotes by Muriel Rukeyser
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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Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness
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Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.
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What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone
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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.
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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
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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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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As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.
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I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.
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Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.
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the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.
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Flight is intolerable contradiction.
Muriel Rukeyser
Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.
Muriel Rukeyser
Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me.
Muriel Rukeyser
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.
Muriel Rukeyser
The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.
Muriel Rukeyser
I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.
Muriel Rukeyser
The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.
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