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
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.
moving emotional ideas
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.
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.
feelings approach poetry-is
Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.
history buried lost
There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.
hollywood standards contempt
Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience.
body language punctuation
Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge ...
knowledge mean civilization
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.
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 ...