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01Undated

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Muriel Rukeyser / quote

02Undated

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

Muriel Rukeyser / quote

03Undated

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

04Undated

Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness

Muriel Rukeyser / quote

05Undated

breathe in experience breathe out poetry

Muriel Rukeyser / quote

06Undated

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

Muriel Rukeyser / quote

07Undated

The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.

Muriel Rukeyser / quote

08Undated

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

Muriel Rukeyser / quote

09Undated

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

10Undated

We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.

Muriel Rukeyser / quote

11Undated

The universe is made of stories, not atoms!

Muriel Rukeyser / quote

12Undated

We hear the saints saying: Our brother the world. We hear the revolutionaries: Dare we win?

Muriel Rukeyser / quote

13Undated

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

14Undated

Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.

Muriel Rukeyser / quote

15Undated

The universe is made up of stories not of atoms.

Muriel Rukeyser / quote

16Undated

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

17Undated

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

Muriel Rukeyser / quote

18Undated

The journey is my home.

Muriel Rukeyser / quote

19Undated

Not all things are blest but the seeds of all things are blest.

Muriel Rukeyser / quote

20Undated

Dreams are the sources of action the meeting and the end a resting place among the flight of things.

Muriel Rukeyser / quote

21Undated

Exchange is creation.

Muriel Rukeyser / quote