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Top 40 Muriel Rukeyser Quotes (2025 Update)

Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “The journey is my home.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “Try to live as if there were a God.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “One writes in order to feel...”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “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.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “My lifetime listens to yours.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “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 Quote: “A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge...”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down – impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “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.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “All the poems of our lives are not yet made.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we remember.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “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 Quote: “I speak to you. You speak to me. Is that fragile?”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “Flight is intolerable contradiction.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “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.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know...”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “The fear of poetry is the fear.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “Exchange is creation.”
Muriel Rukeyser Quote: “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.”
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