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
writing order feels
One writes in order to feel ...
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.
mother remember poet
I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot
new-beginnings blessing all-things
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.
time seeds all-things
Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.
personality happens
Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me.
three-things done forget
What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone
fear
Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.
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.
sacrifice
Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.
marriage lifetime
My lifetime listens to yours.
book reading want
No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.
peace war women
Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness
poetry spirit source
The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.