Muriel Rukeyser

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?The world would split open.

We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.

As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.

I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery, the offering, and the pride.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.

Exchange is creation.

Dreams are the sources of action the meeting and the end a resting place among the flight of things.

Not all things are blest but the seeds of all things are blest.

The universe is made of stories not of atoms.

The journey is my home.

I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery the offering the pride.

I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

The universe is made up of stories not of atoms.

Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.

However confused the scene of our life appears however torn we may be who now do face that scene it can be faced and we can go on to be whole.

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.