Poetry Quote by Muriel Rukeyser Download Open image ““We hear the saints saying: Our brother the world. We hear the revolutionaries: Dare we win?”” — Muriel Rukeyser ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Unity
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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… — 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
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