Muriel Rukeyser byla americká básnířka a politická aktivistka.
„Vesmír je vytvořený z příběhů, ne z atomů.“
[(en) The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.](The Speed of Darkness)
Zdroj: [Latham, Robert T., A Tale of Boxes: The Role of Myth in Creating and Changing Our Stories, Wheatmark, Inc., 2009, 978-1-60494-259-0, 90, anglicky]
“I speak to you. You speak to me. Is that fragile?”
"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
Zdroj: The Life of Poetry (1949), p. 31
“O for God's sake
they are connected
underneath.”
"Islands"
The Gates (1976)
"Gauley Bridge"
U.S. 1 (1938), The Book of the Dead
“All the poems of our lives are not yet made.”
Zdroj: The Life of Poetry (1949), p. 214
Zdroj: The Life of Poetry (1949), p. 222
To be a Jew in the Twentieth Century (1944)
Note, on "The Book of the Dead"
U.S. 1 (1938), The Book of the Dead
Zdroj: "The Road" U.S. 1 (1938), The Book of the Dead
