The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.Muriel Rukeyser
What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.Muriel Rukeyser
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
Always our wars have been our confessions of weaknessMuriel Rukeyser
Breathe in experience breathe out poetryMuriel Rukeyser
The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.Muriel Rukeyser
The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.Muriel Rukeyser
I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery, the offering, and the pride.Muriel Rukeyser
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
We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.Muriel Rukeyser
The universe is made of stories, not atoms!Muriel Rukeyser
We hear the saints saying: Our brother the world. We hear the revolutionaries: Dare we win?Muriel Rukeyser
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
Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.Muriel Rukeyser
The universe is made up of stories not of atoms.Muriel Rukeyser
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
I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery the offering the pride.Muriel Rukeyser
The journey is my home.Muriel Rukeyser
The universe is made of stories not of atoms.Muriel Rukeyser
Not all things are blest but the seeds of all things are blest.Muriel Rukeyser
Dreams are the sources of action the meeting and the end a resting place among the flight of things.Muriel Rukeyser
Exchange is creation.Muriel Rukeyser
Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.Muriel Rukeyser