Will American Writing Poetry Voice Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems. - Muriel Rukeyser
Pride Women I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride. - Muriel Rukeyser
Art Work A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art. - Muriel Rukeyser
May Now Life However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole. - Muriel Rukeyser
If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back. - Ulysses S. Grant
And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. - Julien Benda
If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect. - Maimonides