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Reality is the completion of experience.

Muriel Rukeyser

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Muriel Rukeyser
Age: 66 †
Born: 1913
Born: December 15
Died: 1980
Died: February 12
Author
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Completion
Experience
Reality

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Flight is intolerable contradiction.
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No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.
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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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I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.
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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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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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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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The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories.
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What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone
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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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The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
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My lifetime listens to yours.
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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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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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Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.
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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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A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.
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Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.
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Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.
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The journey is my home.
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