Many of our poems are such monuments. They offer the truths… - Muriel Rukeyser

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Many of our poems are such monuments. They offer the truths of outrage and the truths of possibility.

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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Today for the sake of all the dead

Burst into flower

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Many of our poems are such monuments. They offer the truths of outrage and the truths of possibility. - Muriel Rukeyser

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