Muriel Rukeyser Quotes about Poetry

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

Poetry, Poetic, Breathe

Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.1, Northwestern University Press

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

Poetry, Would Be, World

The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we remember.

Muriel Rukeyser

Emotional, Poetry, Way

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

Muriel Rukeyser

Poetry, Spirit, Source

"Shadows and Miracles: Poems". Book by Cristina Necula (p. 7), 2007.

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually - that is, when you reach it, you will reach it intellectually too - but the way is through emotion, through what we call feeling.

Muriel Rukeyser

Imagination, Poetry, Feelings

"The Life of Poetry". Book by Muriel Rukeyser. Chapter One: "The Fear of Poetry", p. 8, 1949.

Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.

Muriel Rukeyser

Poetry, Possibility, Outrage

the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.

Muriel Rukeyser

Poetry, Form

Muriel Rukeyser Quotes about Poetry

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