Rae Armantrout Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

Rae Armantrout

Rae Armantrout

Rae Armantrout

Born: April 13, 1947 (age 78)

Bio: Rae Armantrout is an American poet generally associated with the Language poets. Armantrout was born in Vallejo, California, but grew up in San Diego. She has published ten books of poetry and has also been featured in a number of major anthologies.

Known for:

Versed (2009)
Veil: New and Selected Poems (2001)
Collected Prose (2007)
The Pretext (2001)
Money Shot (2011)

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