dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality.
Muriel RukeyserNo one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.
Muriel RukeyserIf we look long enough and hard enough ... we will begin to see the connections that bind us together, and when we recognize those connections, we will begin to change the world.
Muriel Rukeyser