Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
Muriel Rukeyser

Exchange is creation.
Muriel Rukeyser

The journey is my home.
Muriel Rukeyser

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
Muriel Rukeyser

I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.
Muriel Rukeyser

I think there is 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.
Muriel Rukeyser

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art.
Muriel Rukeyser

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.
Muriel Rukeyser