Muriel Rukeyser
Muriel Rukeyser
Muriel Rukeyserwas an American poet and political activist, best known for her poems about equality, feminism, social justice, and Judaism. Kenneth Rexroth said that she was the greatest poet of her "exact generation"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth15 December 1913
CountryUnited States of America
Muriel Rukeyser quotes about
flight contradiction
Flight is intolerable contradiction.
three-things done forget
What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone
personality happens
Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me.
imagination poetry feelings
Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling . . .. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually-that is, when you reach it, you will reach it intellectually too- but the way is through emotion, through what we call feeling.
time seeds all-things
Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.
world imagine built
A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.
creation
Exchange is creation.
emotional poetry way
The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we remember.
body language punctuation
Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge ...
writing self order
The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.
writing order feels
One writes in order to feel ...
poetry form
the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.
beware falls possible rest second talk
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.
penalty
In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.