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One writes in order to feel.

Muriel Rukeyser

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Muriel Rukeyser
Age: 66 †
Born: 1913
Born: December 15
Died: 1980
Died: February 12
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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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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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A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.
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My lifetime listens to yours.
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There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.
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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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Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.
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Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.
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Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me.
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Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness
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The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.
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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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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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The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories.
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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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The journey is my home.
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The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
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Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.
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I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.
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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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