The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
Muriel RukeyserTag: inspirational writers craft muriel-rukeyser
If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.
Muriel RukeyserWherever
we walk
we will make
Wherever
we protest
we will go planting
Make poems
seed grass
feed a child growing
build a house
Whatever we stand against
We will stand feeding and seeding
Wherever
I walk
I will make
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 RukeyserTag: peace
We are against war and the sources of war.
We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.
Tag: peace
In our time, they say there is no penalty for writing poems.
They say this.
This is the penalty.
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 RukeyserTag: poetry writing muriel-rukeyser poetcast poets-org sharon-olds
I think there is choice possible at any moment to us, 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 RukeyserAlways our wars have been our confessions of weakness
Muriel RukeyserIn all the cities of this year
I have longed for the other city.
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