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the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.

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Muriel Rukeyser
Age: 66 †
Born: 1913
Born: December 15
Died: 1980
Died: February 12
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New York City
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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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Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.
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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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I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.
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Reality is the completion of experience.
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However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.
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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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I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot
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One writes in order to feel.
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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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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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Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness
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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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Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.
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A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.
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The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.
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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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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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The journey is my home.
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