I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane. — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open. — 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 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
A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world. — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
I will try to be non-violent one more day this morning, waking the world away in the violent day. — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
If we look long enough and hard enough ... we will begin to see the connections that bind us together, and when… — 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
