Top 44 Rae Armantrout Quotes
#1. 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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#2. I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.
Walter Kirn
#4. As a child,
I was abandoned
in a story
made of trees.
Here's the small
gasp
of this clearing
come "upon" "again
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#5. Today could be described as a retired man humming tunelessly to himself.
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#8. 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.
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#10. The future is all around here.' It's a place, anyplace where we don't exist.
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#11. I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.
Diane Keaton
#12. So much happiness is caged in language, ready to burst out anytime and fade
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#13. The greatest moments are those when you see the result pop up in a graph or in your statistics analysis - that moment you realise you know something no one else does and you get the pleasure of thinking about how to tell them.
Emily Oster
#15. Athens, much like Austin, is a difficult music scene. There are so many musicians there that it is hard to get gigs and hard for people to take you seriously.
Corey Smith
#16. Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture.
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#17. When I dreamed about flying,
it was as a skill
I needed to regain.
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#19. We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean.
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#22. A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write.
Joan Jett
#23. He made disgusted noises every time I touched him, so I fell entirely against him. He yelled and I ended up on the floor. It was not my most well-thought-out plan.
Amy Tintera
#24. I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.
Ayn Rand
#25. A motto of the human race: Let me do as I like, and give me approval as well.
Idries Shah
#27. The ghosts swarm. They speak as one person. Each has left something undone.
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#28. I'm composed largely of what the streets and rooms look like, of how to arrive 'just' here.
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#29. The fear
that all this
will end.
The fear
that it won't.
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#30. Ball so hard that you can't win it. So much money bank can't fit it.
Wiz Khalifa
#31. Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.
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#32. Carried by light, images remain while sensation is so evanescent as to be always beyond belief.
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#33. We sleep together in the dark but confuse light with love.
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#34. The feeling of emptiness is a pre-existing condition. Jargon forces intimacy.
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#35. I have seen the shadow of the Earth on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the church
Ferdinand Magellan
#36. The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.
Roger Scruton
#37. You should chose your heroes a-la carte. Picking and choosing from one and then another, thereby assembling a kind of composite hero. That way when you discover something reprehensible about any one of them it matters nothing to you because that's not the part of them that piqued your interest.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#38. Whenever I come to Delhi, I forget about eating right and watching my weight.
Madhur Bhandarkar
#39. Not the city light. We want -the moon-
The Moon none of our own doing!
-RAE ARMANTROUT
Rubin R. Naiman
#40. The crowd is made of little gods, and there is still no heaven.
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#41. 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.
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#42. Metaphor forms a crust beneath which the crevasse of each experience.
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#43. Clarity need not be equivalent to / readability. How readable is the world?
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#44. In the updraft, the particulate glitz is beside itself.
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