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Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me.

Muriel Rukeyser

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Muriel Rukeyser
Age: 66 †
Born: 1913
Born: December 15
Died: 1980
Died: February 12
Author
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
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Happen
Anyone
Whatever
Happens

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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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The journey is my home.
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What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone
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Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness
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Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.
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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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Flight is intolerable contradiction.
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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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The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.
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The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
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I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.
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A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.
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Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.
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Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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