Quotes from U.S. 1 — Muriel Rukeyser
1913–1980 United States
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Here is your road, tying you to its meanings: gorge, boulder, precipice.
Telescoped down, the hard and stone-green river
cutting fast and direct into the town.
U.S. 1 (1938)
These are roads to take when you think of your country
and interested bring down the maps again,
phoning the statistician, asking the dear friend,
reading the papers with morning inquiry.
U.S. 1 (1938)
Local images have one kind of reality. U.S. 1 will, I hope, have that kind and another too. Poetry can extend the document.
U.S. 1 (1938)
What do you want — a cliff over a city?
A foreland, sloped to sea and overgrown with roses?
These people live here.
U.S. 1 (1938)