A Quote by Muriel Rukeyser

Never to despise in myself what I have been taught to despise. Nor to despise the other. Not to despise the it. To make this relation with the it: to know that I am it.

Muriel Rukeyser

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Muriel Rukeyser
American - Poet
December 15, 1913 - February 12, 1980

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