Completeness Quote by Muriel Rukeyser Download Open image “The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.” — Muriel Rukeyser ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Completeness Poetry Poetry Spirit Religion Seeking Seeking Completeness Sources Poetry Spirit Spirit Seeking
Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we predicate our… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm,… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even. — Carolyn Forche 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
“Complete - Yourself! Others may only enhance your completeness.” — Lashauna D. Hinton Copy Share Image
God's power under us, in us, surging through us, is exactly what turns dependence into unforgettable experiences of completeness. — Bruce Wilkinson Copy Share Image
You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the dogmatic belief,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nearly everybody nowadays accepts the 'causal completeness of physics' - every physical event (or at least its probability) has a full physical cause. This… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
“In order for completeness first hand most people have to live with the truth.” — Khem Veasna Copy Share Image
But the 'project of me' can never be enough, for it does not meet 'the other,' and real living involves meeting. The touch and… — Rick Jarow Copy Share Image
Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
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