Muriel Rukeyser Poetry Quotations

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.

Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know ...

the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling . . .. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually-that is, when you reach it, you will reach it intellectually too- but the way is through emotion, through what we call feeling.

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

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

The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we remember.

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.