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 Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience. Muriel Rukeyser contempt standards hollywood 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 passion play giving I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane. Muriel Rukeyser insane morning war A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world. Muriel Rukeyser built imagine world Slowly I would get to pen and paper, Make my poems for others unseen and unborn. In the day I would be reminded of those men and women, Brave, setting up signals across vast distances, considering a nameless way of living, of almost unimagined values. Muriel Rukeyser distance brave men Beware of those who talk about sacrifice. Muriel Rukeyser sacrifice The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories. Muriel Rukeyser molecules stories world The heavy sensual shoulders, the thighs, the blood-born flesh Muriel Rukeyser color fire blood I speak to you. You speak to me. Is that fragile? Muriel Rukeyser fragile speak 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 new-beginnings all-things blessing I will try to be non-violent Muriel Rukeyser violence morning trying I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot Muriel Rukeyser poet mother remember Try to live as if there were a God Muriel Rukeyser god trying life There has been in our time a lack of reliance on language and a lack of experimentation which are frightening to anyone who sees them as symptoms. We know the phenomenon of stage-fright: it holds the player shivering, incapable of speech or action. Perhaps there is an audience-fright which the play can feel, which leaves him with these incapacities. Muriel Rukeyser speech player action Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself means the uses of everything it has - the inventions, the histories, every scrap of fact. But there is one kind of knowledge - infinitely precious, time-resistant more than monuments, here to be passed between the generations in any way it may be: never to be used. And that is poetry. Muriel Rukeyser civilization mean knowledge One writes in order to feel. Muriel Rukeyser writing feels order Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. Muriel Rukeyser seeds all-things time the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same. Muriel Rukeyser form poetry Flight is intolerable contradiction. Muriel Rukeyser flight contradiction I am haunted by interrupted acts, Muriel Rukeyser flames movement light
