Muriel Rukeyser Quotes

It is the single image, as used in a photograph or a painting - or the frame of a film - to which words have been added to enlarge the context. The method is not the same as that by which most paintings are named. It is closer in its performance to what dialogue does to a movie, to what the caption does to a good poster.

Muriel Rukeyser

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GoodWordsPaintingPerformanceSame

Those close to Mr. Obama say he grows irritated at being misunderstood - not just by opponents who insinuate that he caters to African-Americans, but also by black lawmakers and intellectuals who fault him for not making his presidency an all-out assault on racial disparity.

Jodi Kantor

BlackSayMisunderstoodFaultRacial

The question for me was, could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3-year-olds who sang beer commercials!

Joan Ganz Cooney

BeerMeTeachQuestionBecauseKnew

I always place myself as the archetypal Cure fan. I'm the wrong age, but I still think that if I like anything particularly, our fans will.

Robert Smith

AgeMyselfThinkWrongPlaceWill

We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.

Maurice Strong

WorldCivilizationWillWayPoint

Edgar Allan Poe, an earlier UVA student, once complained in a letter that his stepfather spoke to him as if Poe were one of the black slaves; some of the students at UVA surely felt the same about being told what to do by faculty.

Matthew Pearl

BlackStudentHimSameBeingSlaves

People forget already how much utility they get out of the Internet - how much utility they get out of e-mail, how much utility they get out of even simple things like brochureware online.

Jeff Bezos

SimplePeopleInternetSimple Things

I'm always with my band; they're my best friends.

Sigrid

BestFriendsBandAlways

I am a fan of history.

Tom T. Hall

HistoryI AmFanAm

It may seem like we have the ultimate plan for our lives, but it's not in the same galaxy of what God's plans are for His people.

Monica Johnson

GodPeoplePlanPlansGalaxySame

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

GoodBadHeavenDownEarthUp

I am an open book, literally. I don't mind if people know way too much about me.

Lisa Scottoline

I AmPeopleMindMeBookToo Much

Creating the right advisory board for your startup can be the single most important step you take in building a new business.

Jay Samit

BusinessStepBuildingYouCreating

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