"I am working out the vocabulary of my silence."

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Source : Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.135, Northwestern University Press

Muriel Rukeyser

#Vocabulary Quotes #Work Out Quotes #Silence Quotes

“I love to play to win.”
“He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.”
“The last time I saw something that tall standing so still for so long, it was perched on the edge of a cliff shining a light across the sea.”
“I always thought the women of my age group got short shrift because the women's liberation movement came slightly after. You look at the yearbooks and you see the future homemakers of America - hurray for that - but you also see them in the engineers club. You see minority kids as student body presidents at a time when everyone was supposed to be terminally racist. Yearbooks are genres; they're also folk art, folk documentation.”

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“Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.”
“What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and then put in a huge amount of myself.”
“Punch a black belt in the face, he becomes a brown belt. Punch him again, purple...”
“Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.”

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