Never to despise in myself what I have been taught Muriel Rukeyser More Quotes by Muriel Rukeyser More Quotes From Muriel Rukeyser Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling. Muriel Rukeyser approachpoetry-isfeelings I am working out the vocabulary of my silence. Muriel Rukeyser work-outvocabularysilence Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness Muriel Rukeyser womenwarpeace 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 ablegivingart All the poems of our lives are not yet made. Muriel Rukeyser our-livesmade Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know. Muriel Rukeyser outragepossibilitypoetry 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 selfmemorieslong The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality. Muriel Rukeyser cuttingpoetry-isreality The world is made up of Stories, not Atoms. Muriel Rukeyser atomsstoriesworld 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 emotionalpoetryway Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other. Muriel Rukeyser fear 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 shrinkingrealityworld What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone Muriel Rukeyser threedoneforget The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form. Muriel Rukeyser selfwritingorder How can I look back and not speak of the stupid learning about birth? Of the stupid learning that people make love, and how it seemed the reason for all things, the intimacy of my wondering, the illumination that to an adolescent was the cause for life around me, the reason why the unhappy people I knew did not kill themselves? Muriel Rukeyser illuminationstupidpeople Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things. Muriel Rukeyser flightdreamaction Women in drudgery knew Muriel Rukeyser saintwifeartist 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 dyingdesirethinking Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me. Muriel Rukeyser personalityhappens Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience. Muriel Rukeyser contemptstandardshollywood
