“Slowly I would get to pen and paper,
Make my poems for others unseen and unborn.”

—  Muriel Rukeyser

"Poem"
The Speed of Darkness (1968)
Context: Slowly I would get to pen and paper,
Make my poems for others unseen and unborn.
In the day I would be reminded of those men and women,
Brave, setting up signals across vast distances,
considering a nameless way of living, of almost unimagined values.

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poet and political activist 1913–1980

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