If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry...

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

Muriel Rukeyser

The Life of Poetry (1949)

Muriel Rukeyser Quotes

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.