109 Quotes by Muriel Rukeyser

Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience.

There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.

Slowly I would get to pen and paper, Make my poems for others unseen and unborn. In the day I would be reminded of those men and women, Brave, setting up signals across vast distances, considering a nameless way of living, of almost unimagined values.

I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane.

Flight is intolerable contradiction.

All the poems of our lives are not yet made.

We sit here, very different each from the other, until the passion arrives to give us our equality, to make us part of the play, to make the play part of us.

I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.

In time of crisis, we summon up our strength. Then, if we are lucky, we are able to call every resource, every forgotten image that can leap to our quickening, every memory that can make us know our power. And this luck is more than it seems to be: it depends on the long preparation of the self to be used.