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There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.
Muriel Rukeyser
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Muriel Rukeyser
Age: 66 †
Born: 1913
Born: December 15
Died: 1980
Died: February 12
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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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Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge.
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