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Muriel Rukeyser was an American poet and political activist, best known for her poems about equality, feminism, social justice, and Judaism. Kenneth Rexroth said that she was the greatest poet of her "exact generation."

One of her most powerful pieces was a group of poems titled The Book of the Dead , documenting the details of the Hawk's Nest incident, an industrial disaster in which hundreds of miners died of silicosis.

Her poem "To be a Jew in the Twentieth Century" , on the theme of Judaism as a gift, was adopted by the American Reform and Reconstructionist movements for their prayer books, something Rukeyser said "astonished" her, as she had remained distant from Judaism throughout her early life. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. Grudzień 1913 – 12. Luty 1980
Muriel Rukeyser: 42 cytaty0 Polubień

Muriel Rukeyser: Cytaty po angielsku

“We sit here, very different each from the other, until the passion arrives to give us our equality, to make us part of the play, to make the play part of us.”

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Źródło: The Life of Poetry (1949), p. 126

“These are roads to take when you think of your country
and interested bring down the maps again,
phoning the statistician, asking the dear friend,
reading the papers with morning inquiry.”

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Źródło: "The Road" U.S. 1 (1938), The Book of the Dead

“I speak to you. You speak to me. Is that fragile?”

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"Waterlily Fire" https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/54593, IV: 'Fragile', in Waterlily Fire: Poems 1935-1962 (1962), and in Out of Silence: Selected Poems, ed. Kate Daniels (1994), p. 120

“The statement of ideas in a poem may have to do with logic. More profoundly, it may be identified with the emotional progression of the poem, in terms of the music and images, so that the poem is alive throughout.
Another, more fundamental statement in poetry, is made through the images themselves — those declarations, evocative, exact, and musical, which move through time and are the actions of a poem.”

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Źródło: The Life of Poetry (1949), p. 31

“What do you want — a cliff over a city?
A foreland, sloped to sea and overgrown with roses?
These people live here.”

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"Gauley Bridge"
U.S. 1 (1938), The Book of the Dead

“All the poems of our lives are not yet made.”

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Źródło: The Life of Poetry (1949), p. 214

“How can I look back and not speak of the stupid learning about birth? Of the stupid learning that people make love, and how it seemed the reason for all things, the intimacy of my wondering, the illumination that — to an adolescent — was the cause for life around me, the reason why the unhappy people I knew did not kill themselves?”

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Źródło: The Life of Poetry (1949), p. 222

“To be a Jew in the twentieth century
Is to be offered a gift. If you refuse,
Wishing to be invisible, you choose
Death of the spirit, the stone insanity.
Accepting, take full life. Full agonies:
Your evening deep in labyrinthine blood
Of those who resist, fail, and resist: and God
Reduced to a hostage among hostages. The gift is torment.”

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To be a Jew in the Twentieth Century (1944)

“This is to be a summary poem of the life of the Atlantic coast of this country, nourished by the communications which run down it. Gauley Bridge is inland, but it was created by theories, systems, and workmen from many coastal sections — factors which are, in the end, not regional or national. Local images have one kind of reality. U. S. 1 will, I hope, have that kind and another too. Poetry can extend the document.”

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Note, on "The Book of the Dead"
U.S. 1 (1938), The Book of the Dead

“How shall we venture home?
How shall we tell each other of the poet?
How can we meet the judgment on the poet,
or his execution? How shall we free him? How shall we speak to the infant beginning to run?
All those beginning to run?”

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Źródło: The Gates (1976)

“Here is your road, tyingyou to its meanings: gorge, boulder, precipice.
Telescoped down, the hard and stone-green river
cutting fast and direct into the town.”

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Źródło: "The Road" U.S. 1 (1938), The Book of the Dead

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