Muriel Rukeyser

"No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book."

"What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?The world would split open."

"No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book."

"The universe is made up of stories, not atoms."

"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."