Quotes by : Muriel Rukeyser

breathe in experience breathe out poetry

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?The world would split open.

Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness

The universe is made up of stories not of atoms.

However confused the scene of our life appears however torn we may be who now do face that scene it....

The universe is made of stories not of atoms.

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.

Not all things are blest but the seeds of all things are blest.

I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery the offering the pride.