Quotes by Muriel Rukeyser

"Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry."

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"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."

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"Local images have one kind of reality. 'U.S. 1' will, I hope, have that kind and another, too. Poetry can extend the document."

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"If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger."

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