Bridge Quote by Muriel Rukeyser

“In our time, they say there is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.”

— Muriel Rukeyser

“In all the cities of this year I have longed for the other city.”

— Muriel Rukeyser

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

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

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

Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness

— Muriel Rukeyser

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

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

the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.

— Muriel Rukeyser

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

One writes in order to feel.

— Muriel Rukeyser

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