Beyond Quote by Muriel Rukeyser Download Open image “Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.” — Muriel Rukeyser ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beyond Books Failed Failure Our Poetry Them Will
To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail, and if… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
I have poetic failures all the time. Many failed poems. I try not to publish those, though some have slipped into each book, since… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“I say I think my poems now are finer than anything I've ever done; I only hope that is the judgement of a ruined… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
One of the things I've always thought is that if I were to write a poetics, it would have to do with the poetics… — Martha Ronk 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 the poem, in terms of the music and images, so that the poem is alive throughout. Another, more fundamental statement in poetry, is made through the images themselves those declarations, evocative, exact, and musical, which move… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share
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
A monkey is unaware that atoms exist. Likewise, our brainpower may not stretch to the deepest aspects of reality. The bedrock nature of space… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
If our species is to survive, our future will probably require outposts beyond our own planet. — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
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Beyond providing some level of scrutiny of Kenyan MPs, we built Mzalendo to demonstrate that there is only so much bemoaning you can do… — Ory Okolloh Copy Share Image
The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
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It is truly vital for the United States to assure that it is not attacked with weapons of mass destruction; to prevent wars in… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what can happen is beyond what… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
A nuclear-weapons armed Iran is not in anyone's human-rights interests. That is a direct threat to the lives and the livelihoods and the stability… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
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