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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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Reality is the completion of experience.
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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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My lifetime listens to yours.
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