Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980) poet and political activist
Source: The Life of Poetry (1949), p. 126
“My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight.”
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