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. Y…

- Muriel Rukeyser

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.

- Muriel Rukeyser

One writes in order to feel.

- Muriel Rukeyser

The statement of ideas in a poem may have to do with logic. More profoundly, it may be identified with the emotional progression of the poem, in term…

- Muriel Rukeyser

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

- Muriel Rukeyser

Reality is the completion of experience.

- Muriel Rukeyser

Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.

- Muriel Rukeyser

Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness

- Muriel Rukeyser

A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.

- Muriel Rukeyser