109 Quotes by Muriel Rukeyser

What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone

Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.

The statement of ideas in a poem may have to do with logic . More profoundly, it may be identified with the emotional progression of the poem, in terms of the music and images, so that the poem is alive throughout. Another, more fundamental statement in poetry, is made through the images themselves those declarations, evocative, exact, and musical, which move through time and are the actions of a poem.

Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

My lifetime listens to yours.

The world is made up of Stories, not Atoms.

The journey is my home.

If we look long enough and hard enough ... we will begin to see the connections that bind us together, and when we recognize those connections, we will begin to change the world.

Never to despise in myself what I have been taught to despise. Nor to despise the other. Not to despise the it. To make this relation with the it: to know that I am it.