Muriel Rukeyser - Speak Quotes

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Many of us speak,
we do teach each other, we do act through our fears.

Muriel Rukeyser

How can I look back and not speak of the stupid learning about birth? Of the stupid learning that people make love, and how it seemed the reason for all things, the intimacy of my wondering, the illumination that — to an adolescent — was the cause for life around me, the reason why the unhappy people I knew did not kill themselves?

Muriel Rukeyser

Call off your black dog, death,
it cannot bark me down:
I'll travel past these wounds
and speak another breath!

Muriel Rukeyser

How shall we venture home?
How shall we tell each other of the poet?
How can we meet the judgment on the poet,
or his execution? How shall we free him? How shall we speak to the infant beginning to run?
All those beginning to run?

Muriel Rukeyser