Rukeyser

Famous quotes containing the word rukeyser:

    Twilight and bulb define
    the brown room, the overstuffed plum sofa,
    the boy, and the girl’s thin hands above his head.
    —Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)

    I will try to be non-violent
    one more day
    this morning, waking the world away
    in the violent day.
    —Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)

    The first green night of their dreaming, asleep beneath the Tree,/God said, “Let meanings move,” and there was poetry.
    —Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)