Muriel Rukeyser Quotes


As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.


Citations

Rukeyser, Muriel. The Life of Poetry. Current Books, 1949.

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Muriel Rukeyser
Muriel Rukeyser
  • Born: December 15, 1913
  • Died: February 12, 1980
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Poet

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."