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the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.
Muriel Rukeyser
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Muriel Rukeyser
Age: 66 †
Born: 1913
Born: December 15
Died: 1980
Died: February 12
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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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There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.
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Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.
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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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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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Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge.
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A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.
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Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness
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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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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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What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.
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One writes in order to feel.
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The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
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I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.
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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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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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Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.
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Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me.
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