“In our time, they say there is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.” — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
The statement of ideas in a poem may have to do with logic. More profoundly, it may be identified with the emotional… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same. — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry. — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict....We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form. — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure. — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
“We hear the saints saying: Our brother the world. We hear the revolutionaries: Dare we win?” — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
Slowly I would get to pen and paper, Make my poems for others unseen and unborn. In the day I would be… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself means the uses of everything… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
“We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.” — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
Local images have one kind of reality. 'U.S. 1' will, I hope, have that kind and another, too. Poetry can extend the… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
“Wherever we walk we will make Wherever we protest we will go planting Make poems seed grass feed a child growing build… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality. — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
“When I am dead, even then, I will still love you, I will wait in these poems, When I am dead, even… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
“In our time, they say there is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.” — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
“In all the cities of this year I have longed for the other city.” — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
Never to despise in myself what I have been taught to despise. Nor to despise the other. Not to despise the it. To make… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
The statement of ideas in a poem may have to do with logic. More profoundly, it may be identified with the emotional progression of… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
Editors have grown timid... a brave advance is almost inevitably followed by quick back-tracking, generally by dilution and debasement of the original intention. — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war,… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same. — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
The advertising men made it clear that there were two ways of looking at ideas in a war against fascism. Those of us who… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
