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Poets tend to form loose groups - the "Romantics" or the "Imagists". And sometimes they write manifestoes in the name of these groups. This can be good. It forces the poet and the audience to think. But it can also be dangerous. It can turn into a branding device so that potential readers believe they know all they need to know once they know you've been associated with a certain group or position. It can freeze things in place. That's where thinking stops.

Rae Armantrout's Popular Quotes

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…

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But here I hold your dream in my poem.

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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…

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

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

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

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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.

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

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