And if an essential thing has flown between us, rare intell… - Muriel Rukeyser

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And if an essential thing has flown between us,
rare intellectual bird of communication,
let us seize it quickly : let our preference
choose it instead of softer things to screen us
each from the other's self : muteness or hesitation,
nor petrify live miracle by our indifference.

Muriel Rukeyser

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Muriel Rukeyser (15 December 1913 – 12 February 1980) was an American poet and political activist, most famous for her poems about equality, feminism, social justice, and Judaism.

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I was told by friends, when it was a matter of deciding to go ahead and have a child, that I would have to choose between the child and poetry, and I said no. I was not going to make that choice; I would choose both.

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the man with the clean hands is the man with the drill,
the man who answers "yes" lies still."

In our time, they say there is no penalty for writing poems.
They say this.
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