Quotes of Muriel Rukeyser - somelinesforyou

“ The journey is my home. ”

- Muriel Rukeyser

“ Breathe in experience, breathe out poetry. ”

- Muriel Rukeyser

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

- Muriel Rukeyser

“ The journey is my home. ”

- Muriel Rukeyser

“ The universe is made of stories, not of atoms. ”

- Muriel Rukeyser

“ What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open. ”

- Muriel Rukeyser

“ No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem downimpossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book. ”

- Muriel Rukeyser

“ Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness ”

- Muriel Rukeyser

“ breathe in experience breathe out poetry ”

- Muriel Rukeyser

“ The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality. ”

- Muriel Rukeyser

“ The universe is made up of stories, not atoms. ”

- Muriel Rukeyser

“ No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem downimpossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book. ”

- Muriel Rukeyser

“ Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other. ”

- Muriel Rukeyser

“ 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. ”

- Muriel Rukeyser

“ 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. ”

- Muriel Rukeyser

“ Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry. ”

- Muriel Rukeyser

“ The universe is made of stories, not of atoms. ”

- Muriel Rukeyser

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

- Muriel Rukeyser

“ Flight is intolerable contradiction. ”

- Muriel Rukeyser

“ Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other. ”

- Muriel Rukeyser

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

- Muriel Rukeyser

“ Flight is intolerable contradiction. ”

- Muriel Rukeyser

“ The journey is my home. ”

- Muriel Rukeyser

“ Flight is intolerable contradiction. ”

- Muriel Rukeyser

“ 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. - The Life of Poetry. ”

- Muriel Rukeyser

“ Exchange is creation. ”

- Muriel Rukeyser

“ The journey is my home. ”

- Muriel Rukeyser

“ Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry. ”

- Muriel Rukeyser

“ Flight is intolerable contradiction. ”

- Muriel Rukeyser

“ I think there is a 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. ”

- Muriel Rukeyser
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