There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost. Muriel Rukeyser More Quotes by Muriel Rukeyser More Quotes From Muriel Rukeyser The statement of ideas in a poem may have to do with logic. More profoundly, it may be identified with the emotional progression of the poem, in terms of the music and images, so that the poem is alive throughout. Another, more fundamental statement in poetry, is made through the images themselves those declarations, evocative, exact, and musical, which move through time and are the actions of a poem. Muriel Rukeyser emotional ideas moving Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling. Muriel Rukeyser approach poetry-is feelings I am working out the vocabulary of my silence. Muriel Rukeyser work-out vocabulary silence Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness Muriel Rukeyser women war peace 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 able giving art All the poems of our lives are not yet made. Muriel Rukeyser our-lives made Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know. Muriel Rukeyser outrage possibility poetry 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 self memories long The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality. Muriel Rukeyser cutting poetry-is reality The world is made up of Stories, not Atoms. Muriel Rukeyser atoms stories world 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 emotional poetry way 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 shrinking reality world What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone Muriel Rukeyser three done forget The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form. Muriel Rukeyser self writing order 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 illumination stupid people Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things. Muriel Rukeyser flight dream action Women in drudgery knew Muriel Rukeyser saint wife artist 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 dying desire thinking Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me. Muriel Rukeyser personality happens
