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Muriel Rukeyser Quotes

We sit here, very different each from the other, until the passion arrives to give us our equality, to make us part of the play, to make the play part of us Picture Quote #1

These are roads to take when you think of your country and interested bring down the maps again, phoning the statistician, asking the dear friend, reading the papers with morning inquiry Picture Quote #1

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires Picture Quote #1

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open Picture Quote #1

Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed Picture Quote #1

I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride Picture Quote #1

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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 we can go on to be whole Picture Quote #1

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them Picture Quote #1

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger Picture Quote #1

In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, there is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty Picture Quote #1

I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice Picture Quote #1

I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane Picture Quote #1

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The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form Picture Quote #1

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality Picture Quote #1

If we look long enough and hard enough... we will begin to see the connections that bind us together, and when we recognize those connections, we will begin to change the world Picture Quote #1

The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we remember Picture Quote #1

The truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same Picture Quote #1

Dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality Picture Quote #1

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Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things Picture Quote #1

In time of crisis, we summon up our strength. Then, if we are lucky, we are able to call every resource, every forgotten image that can leap to our quickening, every memory that can make us know our power. And this luck is more than it seems to be: it depends on the long preparation of the self to be used Picture Quote #1

As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive Picture Quote #1

I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice Picture Quote #1

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We sit here, very different each from the other, until the passion arrives to give us our equality, to make us part of the play, to make the play part of us (Muriel Rukeyser Quotes) These are roads to take when you think of your country and interested bring down the maps again, phoning the statistician, asking the dear friend, reading the papers with morning inquiry (Muriel Rukeyser Quotes) Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires (Muriel Rukeyser Quotes) What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open (Muriel Rukeyser Quotes) Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed (Muriel Rukeyser Quotes) I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride (Muriel Rukeyser Quotes) However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole (Muriel Rukeyser Quotes) A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them (Muriel Rukeyser Quotes) If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger (Muriel Rukeyser Quotes) In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, there is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty (Muriel Rukeyser Quotes) I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice (Muriel Rukeyser Quotes) I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane (Muriel Rukeyser Quotes) The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form (Muriel Rukeyser Quotes) The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality (Muriel Rukeyser Quotes) If we look long enough and hard enough... we will begin to see the connections that bind us together, and when we recognize those connections, we will begin to change the world (Muriel Rukeyser Quotes) The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we remember (Muriel Rukeyser Quotes) The truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same (Muriel Rukeyser Quotes) Dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality (Muriel Rukeyser Quotes) Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things (Muriel Rukeyser Quotes) In time of crisis, we summon up our strength. Then, if we are lucky, we are able to call every resource, every forgotten image that can leap to our quickening, every memory that can make us know our power. And this luck is more than it seems to be: it depends on the long preparation of the self to be used (Muriel Rukeyser Quotes) As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive (Muriel Rukeyser Quotes) I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice (Muriel Rukeyser Quotes)

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