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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.
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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What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone
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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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One writes in order to feel.
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Flight is intolerable contradiction.
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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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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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Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.
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There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.
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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. 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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Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.
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Reality is the completion of experience.
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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 journey is my home.
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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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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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The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories.
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