109 Quotes by Muriel Rukeyser

Exchange is creation.

Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know ...

the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.

A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.

I speak to you. You speak to me. Is that fragile?

The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories.

Women in drudgery knew They must be one of four: Whores, artists, saints, and wives. There are composite lives that women always live

The heavy sensual shoulders, the thighs, the blood-born flesh and earth turning into color, rocks into their crystals, water to sound, fire to form: life flickers uncounted into the supple arms of love.

I will try to be non-violent one more day this morning, waking the world away in the violent day.