Top 42 Armantrout The Way Quotes
#1. In 2000, twice as much water was used throughout the world as in 1960. By 2050, half of the planet's projected 8.9 billion people will live in countries that are chronically short of water.
Rose George
#3. The ghosts swarm. They speak as one person. Each has left something undone.
Rae Armantrout
#4. I haven't been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible.
David Boreanaz
#5. I'm composed largely of what the streets and rooms look like, of how to arrive 'just' here.
Rae Armantrout
#6. The fear
that all this
will end.
The fear
that it won't.
Rae Armantrout
#7. Perhaps you're a slave to your own idea of yourself.
D.H. Lawrence
#8. Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.
Rae Armantrout
#9. Carried by light, images remain while sensation is so evanescent as to be always beyond belief.
Rae Armantrout
#10. We sleep together in the dark but confuse light with love.
Rae Armantrout
#11. The feeling of emptiness is a pre-existing condition. Jargon forces intimacy.
Rae Armantrout
#13. Chemistry, unlike other sciences, sprang originally from delusions and superstitions, and was at its commencement exactly on a par with magic and astrology.
Thomas Thomson
#14. Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
Bob Goff
#15. Not the city light. We want -the moon-
The Moon none of our own doing!
-RAE ARMANTROUT
Rubin R. Naiman
#16. The crowd is made of little gods, and there is still no heaven.
Rae Armantrout
#17. Lily Brown writes with and against things in poems that are coiled up tight as springs (or snakes). A believer in the power of the line, she writes, 'I think the plastics/and sink them' then 'Where is the sand/man hiding the dirt.' These terse, biting poems will make you look around and wonder.
Rae Armantrout
#18. Metaphor forms a crust beneath which the crevasse of each experience.
Rae Armantrout
#19. Clarity need not be equivalent to / readability. How readable is the world?
Rae Armantrout
#20. That's not true. I did not have sexual intercourse with Lindsay Lohan ... A lot of people probably did, I don't know, [but I did not].
Adam Levine
#21. In the updraft, the particulate glitz is beside itself.
Rae Armantrout
#22. So much happiness is caged in language, ready to burst out anytime and fade
Rae Armantrout
#23. 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
#24. Today could be described as a retired man humming tunelessly to himself.
Rae Armantrout
#25. Go litel bok, go, litel myn tragedye,
Ther God thi makere yet, er that he dye,
So sende myght to make in som comedye!
But litel book, no makyng thow n'envie,
But subgit be to alle poesye;
And kis the steppes where as thow seest pace
Virgile, Ovide, Omer, Lucan, and Stace.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#26. This route is only one of several imaginary paths.
Rae Armantrout
#27. A sense of mission lost
in ink's
jagged outcrops.
I was trying to tell myself
what I must have known
before
in a form
I wouldn't recognize at first.
Rae Armantrout
#30. The future is all around here.' It's a place, anyplace where we don't exist.
Rae Armantrout
#31. President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
Ralph Nader
#32. What I wished more than anything was that the thing hadn't happened at all, and I thought that by not mentioning it I'd be doing everyone else a favor.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#33. 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
#35. Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture.
Rae Armantrout
#36. When I dreamed about flying,
it was as a skill
I needed to regain.
Rae Armantrout
#38. We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean.
Rae Armantrout
#41. I don't have interns. I don't have a manager. I don't have assistants. I don't have a secretary. I can't figure out Outlook Express. I'm the worst person in the world answering e-mails, and my phone is probably the oldest, most battered phone you can find. So I just talk to people.
Bruce Dickinson
#42. I want to create no matter what methods I have to use.
And you want to steal no matter what methods you have to use.
Given that which of us is the greater sinner?
Yukiru Sugisaki
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