109 Quotes by Muriel Rukeyser

Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness

As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.

We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.

It breaks the hills, cracking the riches wide,runs through electric wires;it comes, warning the night,running among these rigid hills,a single force to waken our eyes.

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.

All power is saved, having no end.     Risesin the green season, in the sudden seasonthe white the budded                                             and the lost.

breathe in experience breathe out poetry

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

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?The world would split open.