Muriel Rukeyser Quotes

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

Muriel Rukeyser

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 15, 1913 - February 12, 1980

Topics

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Marlon was more of a formal zoo director type.

Jim Fowler

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And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance.

John W. Snow

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As readers, we sense when the game is being played for real and when something else is afoot: pride, showmanship, the pursuit of power, self-aggrandizement, revenge, making money. Not that there's anything wrong with any of that, but I dislike closing a book with the sense that I've been had.

Stacey D'Erasmo

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I always tried to do the best for my kid.

Sofia Vergara

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Although virtually all Republicans campaign on fiscal restraint, how many actually care about it deeply?

Tucker Carlson

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I really think the biggest honor, as a comic, is to get roasted by either the Friars Club or the Comedy Central or someone like that. Because it really shows, you know, that you've arrived.

Lisa Lampanelli

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If somebody is in a story, they need to be there for a reason, and not just to set up somebody else's story.

Joss Whedon

StoryNeedReasonUpJustSomebody

In the end I'm the only one who knows me.

Donnie Wahlberg

MeEndIn The EndOnlyWhoKnows

Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.

Pierce Brosnan

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Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

Philip Guedalla

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A lot of people want the crown, but they're not willing to bleed for it.

Scott Haze

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To the Spains will come a very powerful king, by land and sea subjugating the South; This will cause harm, lowering again the crescent, clipping the wings of those of Friday.

Nostradamus

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