Muriel Rukeyser Quotes About Poetry

Quotes about: Poetry

• Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  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 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

• 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

• Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself means the uses of everything it has - the inventions, the histories, every scrap of fact. But there is one kind of knowledge - infinitely precious, time-resistant more than monuments, here to be passed between the generations in any way it may be: never to be used. And that is poetry.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Knowledge, Mean, Civilization

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

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