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Rae Armantrout quotes: We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean.

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

Rae Armantrout quotes: So much happiness is caged in language, ready to burst out anytime and fade

So much happiness is caged in language, ready to burst out anytime and fade

Rae Armantrout quotes: This route is only one of several imaginary paths.

This route is only one of several imaginary paths.

Rae Armantrout quotes: Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture.

Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture.

Rae Armantrout quotes: In the updraft, the particulate glitz is beside itself.

In the updraft, the particulate glitz is beside itself.

Rae Armantrout quotes: Metaphor forms a crust beneath which the crevasse of each experience.

Metaphor forms a crust beneath which the crevasse of each experience.

Rae Armantrout quotes: When I dreamed about flying,it was as a skillI needed to regain.

When I dreamed about flying,
it was as a skill
I needed to regain.

Rae Armantrout quotes: Clarity need not be equivalent to / readability. How readable is the world?

Clarity need not be equivalent to / readability. How readable is the world?

Rae Armantrout quotes: Curled up in bed, I'm young in the old way.

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

Rae Armantrout quotes: Now light sits in the chairs

Now light sits in the chairs

Rae Armantrout quotes: Today could be described as a retired man humming tunelessly to himself.

Today could be described as a retired man humming tunelessly to himself.

Rae Armantrout quotes: I know you by your willingness.

I know you by your willingness.

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

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

Rae Armantrout quotes: As a child, I was abandonedin a storymade of trees.Here's the smallgaspof this clearingcome "upon" "again

As a child,
I was abandoned
in a story
made of trees.
Here's the small
gasp
of this clearing
come "upon" "again

Rae Armantrout quotes: Mozart creates a universe out of pleasantries.

Mozart creates a universe out of pleasantries.

Rae Armantrout quotes: Perfect molecules of plastic sheet the seas.

Perfect molecules of plastic sheet the seas.

Rae Armantrout quotes: The ghosts swarm. They speak as one person. Each has left something undone.

The ghosts swarm. They speak as one person. Each has left something undone.

Rae Armantrout quotes: But here I hold your dream in my poem.

But here I hold your dream in my poem.

Rae Armantrout quotes: Carried by light, images remain while sensation is so evanescent as to be always beyond belief.

Carried by light, images remain while sensation is so evanescent as to be always beyond belief.

Rae Armantrout quotes: Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.

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

Rae Armantrout quotes: I'm composed largely of what the streets and rooms look like, of how to arrive 'just' here.

I'm composed largely of what the streets and rooms look like, of how to arrive 'just' here.

Rae Armantrout quotes: We sleep together in the dark but confuse light with love.

We sleep together in the dark but confuse light with love.

Rae Armantrout quotes: The crowd is made of little gods, and there is still no heaven.

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

Rae Armantrout quotes: 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.

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 quotes: The fearthat all thiswill end.The fearthat it won't.

The fear
that all this
will end.
The fear
that it won't.

Rae Armantrout quotes: The feeling of emptiness is a pre-existing condition. Jargon forces intimacy.

The feeling of emptiness is a pre-existing condition. Jargon forces intimacy.