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Muriel Rukeyser
American Poet
Born: Dec 15, 1913
Died: Feb 12, 1980
Home Hope Life Our People Will
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman
The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness. Muriel Rukeyser
Completeness Spirit Seeking Poetry Sources
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
Life Confused Face Our Torn Faced Scene Go However May Who Whole Appears Now
I hope for quick, fluent copy and memorable pictures. The words would not 'describe' the pictures; the pictures would not 'illustrate' the words. Together, they would carry a stamp and tell a story. Muriel Rukeyser
Hope Together Words Fluent Tell Carry Would Memorable Pictures Quick Story Stamp Describe Illustrate Copy
I should like to use another word: 'audience' or 'reader' or 'listener' seems inadequate. I suggest the old word 'witness,' which includes the act of seeing and knowing by personal experience, as well as the act of giving evidence. Muriel Rukeyser
Experience Witness Old Word Giving Evidence Seeing Seems Like Knowing Well Reader Another Audience Personal Personal Experience Listener Which Inadequate Should Act Use Suggest
Editors have grown timid... a brave advance is almost inevitably followed by quick back-tracking, generally by dilution and debasement of the original intention. Muriel Rukeyser
Followed Generally Advance Almost Editors Inevitably Quick Timid Brave Intention Original Grown
The advertising men made it clear that there were two ways of looking at ideas in a war against fascism. Those of us who were working on the project believed ideas were to be fought for; the advertising men believed they were to be sold. The audience, those at home in wartime, were not 'citizens' or 'people.' They were 'customers.' Muriel Rukeyser
War Home People Made Men Looking Sold Project Ways Those Citizens Clear Ideas Advertising Audience Were Against Customers Us Working Who Wartime Fascism Fought Believed Two
Local images have one kind of reality. 'U.S. 1' will, I hope, have that kind and another, too. Poetry can extend the document. Muriel Rukeyser
Hope Reality Will Too Local Kind Poetry Document Another Extend Images
It is the single image, as used in a photograph or a painting - or the frame of a film - to which words have been added to enlarge the context. The method is not the same as that by which most paintings are named. It is closer in its performance to what dialogue does to a movie, to what the caption does to a good poster. Muriel Rukeyser
Good Words Single Painting Added Frame Photograph Poster Performance Named Most Does Context Dialogue Method Been Same Closer Movie Which Used Caption Paintings Film Image
One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure. Muriel Rukeyser
People Strikes Characteristic Poetry Obscure Parts Arrangement Modern Being Modern Poetry Which Many Violent
I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride. Muriel Rukeyser
Women Pride Singing Mystery Clear Hear Offering Lives
Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems. Muriel Rukeyser
Will Our Brought Poems Failed Beyond Readers Them
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 Rukeyser
Day World Intolerable Hunger Would Would-Be Invented Poetry Were Any

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