These are roads to take when you think of your country and interested bring down the maps again, phoning the statistician, asking the dear friend, re… - Muriel Rukeyser

These are roads to take when you think of your country

I speak, then, of a poetry which tends where form tends, where meanings tend. This will be a poetry which is concerned with the crises of our spirit, with the music and the images of these meanings. It will also be a poetry of meeting-places, where the false barriers go down. For they are false. (Chapter One, p 20)

the making of a poem is the type of action which releases aggression. Since it is released appropriately, it is creation. For the last time here, I wish to say that we will not be saved by poetry. But poetry is the type of the creation in which we may live and which will save us.

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.