The future is all around here.' It's a place, anyplace where we don't exist.

- Rae Armantrout

But here I hold your dream in my poem.

- Rae Armantrout

I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening…

- Rae Armantrout

I tend to like the way poets form communities. Writing can be lonely after all. Modern life can be lonely. Poets do seem to be more social than ficti…

- Rae Armantrout

We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean.

- Rae Armantrout

Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.

- Rae Armantrout

Poetry wants to make things mean more than they mean, says someone, as if we knew how much things meant, and in what unit of measure.

- Rae Armantrout

The crowd is made of little gods, and there is still no heaven.

- Rae Armantrout

Curled up in bed, I’m young in the old way.

- Rae Armantrout