Muriel Rukeyser Quotes

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. - Muriel Rukeyser

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms. - Muriel Rukeyser

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness. - Muriel Rukeyser

The journey is my home. - Muriel Rukeyser

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

Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems. - Muriel Rukeyser

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. - Muriel Rukeyser

Muriel's voice comes right out of the heart of this world. - Muriel Rukeyser

In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty. - Muriel Rukeyser

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. - Muriel Rukeyser

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