109 Quotes by Muriel Rukeyser

Buried, five at a time,pine boxes, Rinehart & Dennis paid him $55a head for burying these men in plain pine boxes.His mother is suing him: misuse of land.

The scene of hope's ahead; look, April,and next month with a softer wind,maybe they'll rest upon their land,and then maybe the happy song, and love,a tall boy who was never in a tunnel.

Did you ever bury thirty-five men in a place in back of your house,thirty-five tunnel workers the doctors didn't attend,died in the tunnel camps, under rocks, everywhere, world without end.

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.

However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.

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.

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them.