Rukeyser

Famous quotes containing the word rukeyser:

“Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.”
—Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)

“The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.”
—Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)

“The origin of storms is not in clouds,
our lightning strikes when the earth rises,
spillways free authentic power:
dead John Brown’s body walking from a tunnel
to break the armored and concluded mind.”
—Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)