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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.
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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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 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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Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me.
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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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The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
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There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.
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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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The journey is my home.
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A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.
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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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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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I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.
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Flight is intolerable contradiction.
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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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Reality is the completion of experience.
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I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot
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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 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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Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge.
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