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The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories.

Muriel Rukeyser

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Muriel Rukeyser
Age: 66 †
Born: 1913
Born: December 15
Died: 1980
Died: February 12
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Screenwriter
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New York City
New York
Molecules
Stories
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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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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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Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.
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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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Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.
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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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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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I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.
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Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me.
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A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.
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The journey is my home.
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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 truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.
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Flight is intolerable contradiction.
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There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.
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Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.
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I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.
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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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What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone
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