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

Muriel Rukeyser

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

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

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Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the…

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Never to despise in myself what I have been taught to despise. Nor to despise the other. Not to despise the it. To make…

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The statement of ideas in a poem may have to do with logic. More profoundly, it may be identified with the emotional progression of…

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Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness

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Editors have grown timid... a brave advance is almost inevitably followed by quick back-tracking, generally by dilution and debasement of the original intention.

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As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war,…

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However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and…

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One writes in order to feel.

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The advertising men made it clear that there were two ways of looking at ideas in a war against fascism. Those of us who…

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I speak to you. You speak to me. Is that fragile?

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