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.
The future is all around here.' It's a place, anyplace where we don't exist. - Rae Armantrout
The future is all around here.' It's a place, anyplace where we don't exist.
- 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 am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening…
But here I hold your dream in my poem. - Rae Armantrout
But here I hold your dream in my poem.
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
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…
Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy. - Rae Armantrout
Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.
We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean. - Rae Armantrout
We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean.
The crowd is made of little gods, and there is still no heaven. - Rae Armantrout
The crowd is made of little gods, and there is still no heaven.
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
Curled up in bed, I’m young in the old way. - Rae Armantrout
Curled up in bed, I’m young in the old way.
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