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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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New York City
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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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Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.
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Reality is the completion of experience.
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The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
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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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Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.
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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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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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The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories.
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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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I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.
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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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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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