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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.
Muriel Rukeyser
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Muriel Rukeyser
Age: 66 †
Born: 1913
Born: December 15
Died: 1980
Died: February 12
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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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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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Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.
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What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone
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One writes in order to feel.
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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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A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.
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How can I look back and not speak of the stupid learning about birth? Of the stupid learning that people make love, and how it seemed the reason for all things, the intimacy of my wondering, the illumination that to an adolescent was the cause for life around me, the reason why the unhappy people I knew did not kill themselves?
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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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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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Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.
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Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.
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My lifetime listens to yours.
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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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The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.
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The journey is my home.
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