Muriel Rukeyser

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Muriel Rukeyser (15 December 1913 - 12 February 1980) was an American poet and political activist, best known for her poems about equality, feminism, social justice, and Judaism. Kenneth Rexroth said that she was the greatest poet of her "exact generation"

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I think there is a

I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

The world is not made

The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories.

The universe is made of

The universe is made of stories, not atoms.

I think there is choice

I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

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