However confused the scene of our life appears,
however torn we may be who now do face that scene,
it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.
Source: The Life of Poetry, 1949.
-- Muriel Rukeyser, (Dec 15 1913-1980), US poet, feminist, social reformer; She was noted for writing about feminist, social and political problems; The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser, 1979.