Muriel Rukeyser Quotes

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

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What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.

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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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Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness

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breathe in experience breathe out poetry

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The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.

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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 universe is made up of stories, not atoms.

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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.

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We are against war and the sources of war.
We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.

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