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" Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems. "
Muriel Rukeyser
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" I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice. "
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" Editors have grown timid... a brave advance is almost inevitably followed by quick back-tracking, generally by dilution and debasement of the original intention. "
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" The town of Gauley Bridge stands as a pattern for all those places where people are linked even in the middle of their suffering, where people fight against an evil condition so that other people need not go through the same fight. "
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" The journey is my home. "
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" The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry. "
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" I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride. "
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" 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. "
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" One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure. "
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" I should like to use another word: 'audience' or 'reader' or 'listener' seems inadequate. I suggest the old word 'witness,' which includes the act of seeing and knowing by personal experience, as well as the act of giving evidence. "
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" I hope for quick, fluent copy and memorable pictures. The words would not 'describe' the pictures; the pictures would not 'illustrate' the words. Together, they would carry a stamp and tell a story. "
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Hope
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" Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires. "
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Life
" It is the single image, as used in a photograph or a painting - or the frame of a film - to which words have been added to enlarge the context. The method is not the same as that by which most paintings are named. It is closer in its performance to what dialogue does to a movie, to what the caption does to a good poster. "
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Good
Film
" I learned that I had been brought up as a protected, blindfolded daughter. "
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Learned
Been
" 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. "
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" 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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" The advertising men made it clear that there were two ways of looking at ideas in a war against fascism. Those of us who were working on the project believed ideas were to be fought for; the advertising men believed they were to be sold. The audience, those at home in wartime, were not 'citizens' or 'people.' They were 'customers.' "
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