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• The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Poetry, Spirit, Source

  "Shadows and Miracles: Poems". Book by Cristina Necula (p. 7), 2007.

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• 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

  Thinking, Dying, Desire

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• The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Cutting, Reality, Poetry Is

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• I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Vocabulary, Work Out, Silence

  Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.135, Northwestern University Press

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• 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

  Art, Giving, Able

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• Never to despise in myself what I have been taught
  to despise. Nor to despise the other.
  Not to despise the it. To make this relation
  with the it: to know that I am it.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Tolerance, Taught, Despise

  Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.138, Northwestern University Press

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• American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict....We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at another level, the economy of the nation, the empire of business within the republic, both include in their basic premise the idea of perpetual warfare

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Ideas, People, Democracy

  Muriel Rukeyser (2004). “Selected Poems”

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• 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

  Reality, Shrinking, World

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• 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

  Fall, Sacrifice, Thinking

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• Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Poetry, Possibility, Outrage

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• The 'idea' for the poem, which may come as an image thrown against memory, as a sound of words that sets off a traveling of sound and meaning, as a curve of emotion (a form) plotted by certain crises of events or image or sound, or as a title which evokes a sense of inner relations; this is the first 'surfacing' of the poem. Then a period of stillness may follow.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Memories, Ideas, Curves

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• Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Fear

  Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.62, Northwestern University Press

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• I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Pride, Offering, Singing

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• Women in drudgery knew
  They must be one of four:
  Whores, artists, saints, and wives.
  There are composite lives
  that women always live

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Artist, Wife, Saint

  Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.58, Northwestern University Press

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• I speak to you. You speak to me. Is that fragile?

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Speak, Fragile

  Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.120, Northwestern University Press

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• Try to live as if there were a God

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Life, God, Trying

  Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.54, Northwestern University Press

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• 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

  Moving, Emotional, Ideas

  "The Life of Poetry". Book by Muriel Rukeyser, p. 31, 1949.

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• Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Personality, Happens

  Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.121, Northwestern University Press

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• All the poems of our lives are not yet made.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Made, Our Lives

  "The Life of Poetry". Book by Muriel Rukeyser, p. 214, 1949.

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• The world is made up of Stories, not Atoms.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Atoms, Stories, World

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• Flight is intolerable contradiction.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Flight, Contradiction

  Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.5, Northwestern University Press

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• I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Mother, Remember, Poet

  Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.138, Northwestern University Press

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• the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Poetry, Form

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• Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Hollywood, Standards, Contempt

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• Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Sacrifice

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