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Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.

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
Hidden
Fear

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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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Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.
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I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot
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The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
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My lifetime listens to yours.
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Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.
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The journey is my home.
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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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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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I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.
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