Muriel Rukeyser Quotes

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• Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things.
• The journey is my home.
• Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me.
• I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.
• The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.
• I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a…
• 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…
• 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…
• What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone
• I remember mother saying  :   Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot
• Flight is intolerable contradiction.
• I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.
• The world is made up of Stories, not Atoms.
• In time of crisis, we summon up our strength. Then, if we are lucky, we are able to call every resource, every forgotten image that…
• A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to…
• My lifetime listens to yours.
• A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.
• Exchange is creation.
• 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…
• Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.

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