Muriel Rukeyser Quotes

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.

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.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

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

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

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