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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.
Muriel Rukeyser
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Muriel Rukeyser
Age: 66 †
Born: 1913
Born: December 15
Died: 1980
Died: February 12
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The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
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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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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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I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.
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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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Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness
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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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A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.
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The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.
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One writes in order to feel.
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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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The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories.
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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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What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone
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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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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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I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.
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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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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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