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The journey is my home.

Muriel Rukeyser

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Muriel Rukeyser
Age: 66 †
Born: 1913
Born: December 15
Died: 1980
Died: February 12
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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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The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.
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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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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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There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.
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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 universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
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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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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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I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.
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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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Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness
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Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.
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The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories.
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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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What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone
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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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Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me.
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My lifetime listens to yours.
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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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