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 RukeyserAbout author
- Author's profession: Poet
- Nationality: american
- Born: December 15, 1913
- Died: February 12, 1980
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To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.
Michel de Montaigne