Muriel Rukeyser Quotes

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

Muriel Rukeyser

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Muriel Rukeyser

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

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