16 ordspråk av Muriel Rukeyser
Muriel Rukeyser
Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
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Dreams the sources of action, the meeting and the end, / a resting-place among the flight of things.
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Flight is intolerable contradiction.
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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.
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I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.
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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.
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In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.
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In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.
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In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.
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Muriel's voice comes right out of the heart of this world.
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Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.The blessing is in the seed.
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Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.
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The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality
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The journey is my home
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The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
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