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title: "1 Hold Dream Quotes By Rae Armantrout"
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> [But here I hold your dream in my poem.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rae-armantrout/but-here-i-hold-your-dream-in-my-poem/)

[Rae Armantrout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rae-armantrout/)

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## More by 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rae-armantrout/i-am-attracted-to-looking-at-the-different-things-language-can-mean/)

[Rae Armantrout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rae-armantrout/)

> [“this route is only one of several imaginary paths.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rae-armantrout/this-route-is-only-one-of-several-imaginary-paths/)

[Rae Armantrout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rae-armantrout/)

> [“To reinvent anomalous figments.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rae-armantrout/to-reinvent-anomalous-figments/)

[Rae Armantrout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rae-armantrout/)

> [I know you by your willingness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rae-armantrout/i-know-you-by-your-willingness/)

[Rae Armantrout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rae-armantrout/)

> [People probably long for something genuinely personal in a society where the personal is often indistinguishable from the "personalized." Maybe the poetry audience member…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rae-armantrout/people-probably-long-for-something-genuinely-personal-in-a-society/)

[Rae Armantrout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rae-armantrout/)

> [“The jacaranda, for instance, is beautiful but not serious.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rae-armantrout/the-jacaranda-for-instance-is-beautiful-but-not-serious/)

[Rae Armantrout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rae-armantrout/)

> [Like most of my poems, 'Lie' has several sources: I read a very troubling book called The Sixth Extinction. I took note of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rae-armantrout/like-most-of-my-poems-lie-has-several-sources-i-read-a-very-troubling/)

[Rae Armantrout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rae-armantrout/)

> [Poets tend to form loose groups - the "Romantics" or the "Imagists". And sometimes they write manifestoes in the name of these groups. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rae-armantrout/poets-tend-to-form-loose-groups-the-romantics-or-the-imagists-and/)

[Rae Armantrout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rae-armantrout/)

> [“Evening succeeds evening.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rae-armantrout/evening-succeeds-evening/)

[Rae Armantrout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rae-armantrout/)

> [The ghosts swarm. They speak as one person. Each has left something undone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rae-armantrout/the-ghosts-swarm-they-speak-as-one-person-each-has-left-something/)

[Rae Armantrout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rae-armantrout/)

> [Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rae-armantrout/metaphor-is-ritual-sacrifice-it-kills-the-look-alike-no-metaphor-is/)

[Rae Armantrout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rae-armantrout/)

> [Carried by light, images remain while sensation is so evanescent as to be always beyond belief.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rae-armantrout/carried-by-light-images-remain-while-sensation-is-so-evanescent-as-to/)

[Rae Armantrout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rae-armantrout/)

> [“The feeling of emptiness is a pre-existing condition. Jargon forces intimacy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rae-armantrout/the-feeling-of-emptiness-is-a-pre-existing-condition-jargon-forces/)

[Rae Armantrout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rae-armantrout/)

> [Like all my poems, 'Negotiations' has several sources. It deals with aging lovers and the often silent deals they make. Thinking about bargains made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rae-armantrout/like-all-my-poems-negotiations-has-several-sources-it-deals-with/)

[Rae Armantrout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rae-armantrout/)

> [clarity need not be equivalent to / readability. How readable is the world?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rae-armantrout/clarity-need-not-be-equivalent-to-readability-how-readable-is-the/)

[Rae Armantrout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rae-armantrout/)

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