All the poems of our lives are not yet made.
--Muriel Rukeyser
Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness.
--Muriel Rukeyser
Believe that we bloom upon this stalk of time; and in this expansion, time too grows for us richer and richer towards infinity.
--Muriel Rukeyser
Breathe in experience, breathe out poetry.
--Muriel Rukeyser
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
Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things.
--Muriel Rukeyser
Flight is intolerable contradiction.
--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 we can go on to be whole.
--Muriel Rukeyser
I am in the world
to change the world.
--Muriel Rukeyser
I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane.
--Muriel Rukeyser
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
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
Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.
--Muriel Rukeyser
Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.
--Muriel Rukeyser
Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body- rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge.
--Muriel Rukeyser
Reality is the completion of experience.
--Muriel Rukeyser
The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.
--Muriel Rukeyser
The journey is my home.
--Muriel Rukeyser
The universe is made of stories, not atoms.
--Muriel Rukeyser
There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.
--Muriel Rukeyser
Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me.
--Muriel Rukeyser
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