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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.

~Muriel Rukeyser

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The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

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Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.

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A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art.

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The journey is my home.

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I learned that I had been brought up as a protected, blindfolded daughter.

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The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.

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The town of Gauley Bridge stands as a pattern for all those places where people are linked even in the middle of their suffering, where people fight against an evil condition so that other people need not go through the same fight.

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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.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: December 15th, 1913

Died: February 12th, 1980

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