Muriel Rukeyser
Muriel Rukeyser
Muriel Rukeyserwas an American poet and political activist, best known for her poems about equality, feminism, social justice, and Judaism. Kenneth Rexroth said that she was the greatest poet of her "exact generation"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth15 December 1913
CountryUnited States of America
poetry poetic breathe
Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
writing self order
The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.
ideas people democracy
American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict....We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at another level, the economy of the nation, the empire of business within the republic, both include in their basic premise the idea of perpetual warfare
dream action flight
Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things.
fall sacrifice thinking
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.
confused goes-on may
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.
war fierce source
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.
reality completion
reality is the completion of experience ...
truth world splits
What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.