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
american-poet brought poems
Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.
feelings approach poetry-is
Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.
poetry possibility outrage
Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know ...
poetry form
the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.
imagination poetry feelings
Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling . . .. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually-that is, when you reach it, you will reach it intellectually too- but the way is through emotion, through what we call feeling.
mother remember poet
I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot
poetry spirit source
The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.
poetry would-be world
If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.
cutting reality poetry-is
The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.
emotional poetry way
The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we remember.
poetry poetic breathe
Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
penalty
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.
beware falls possible rest second talk
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.
atoms universe
The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms