Muriel Rukeyser Quotes
Muriel Rukeyser Quotes
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
2391 What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.
4318 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.
2058 Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness
2932 breathe in experience breathe out poetry
4789 The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.
3235 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
4610 The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.
2341 As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.
4299 We are against war and the sources of war.
We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.
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