How can I look back and not speak of the stupid learning ab… - Muriel Rukeyser

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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

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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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Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness

The Life of Poetry · September 1, 1996 Verified in 2 sources · 1 more available Sign up to see the complete provenance

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

As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.

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