Best quotes by Muriel Rukeyser on Poetry

Checkout quotes by Muriel Rukeyser on Poetry

• ‟ Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

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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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• ‟ 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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• ‟ One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure.

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• ‟ The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

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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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