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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.
Muriel Rukeyser
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Muriel Rukeyser
Age: 66 †
Born: 1913
Born: December 15
Died: 1980
Died: February 12
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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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the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.
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I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.
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If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.
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Never to despise in myself what I have been taught to despise. Nor to despise the other. Not to despise the it. To make this relation with the it: to know that I am it.
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A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them.
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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.
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American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict....We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope at another level, the economy of the nation, the empire of business within the republic, both include in their basic premise the idea of perpetual warfare
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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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Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.
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The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
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Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me.
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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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A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.
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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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The journey is my home.
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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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I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.
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Flight is intolerable contradiction.
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Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness
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