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Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.

Muriel Rukeyser

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Muriel Rukeyser
Age: 66 †
Born: 1913
Born: December 15
Died: 1980
Died: February 12
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Screenwriter
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New York City
New York
Outrage
Poems
Possibility
Poetry

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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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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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Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness
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A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.
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Flight is intolerable contradiction.
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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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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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There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.
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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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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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The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.
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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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My lifetime listens to yours.
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The heavy sensual shoulders, the thighs, the blood-born flesh and earth turning into color, rocks into their crystals, water to sound, fire to form: life flickers uncounted into the supple arms of love.
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