109 Quotes by Muriel Rukeyser

This is the dark. Lights strung up all the way.Depression; and driven deeper in,by hunger, pistols, and despair,they took the tunnel.

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

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

The man in the white coat is the man on the hill,the man with the clean hands is the man with the drill,the man who answers "yes" lies still.

These men breathe hardbut the committee has a voice of steel.

But planted in our flesh these valleys stand,everywhere we begin to know the illness,are forced up, and our times confirm us all.

Sloping as gracefully as thighs, the foothills narrow to this, clouds over every townfinally indicate the stored destruction.

The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.

These are our strength, who strike against history.These whose corrupt cells owe their new styles of weakness to our diseases;these carrying light for safety on their foreheadsdescended deeper for richer faults of ore,drilling their death.These touching radium and the luminous poison,carried their death on their lips and with their warning glow in their graves.