Quote by Rae Armantrout Download Open image ““an undiscovered tumor squats on her kidney.”” — Rae Armantrout ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The cancer set into her bones and whittled her down to nothing. The weariness of the world and the weight in her heart laid… — Rachel Autumn Deering Copy Share Image
“It seems as though if I cured cancer and won a Nobel Prize someone would say, “Sure, cancer sucks and I’m glad there’s a… — Gabourey Sidibe Copy Share Image
“Some cancers are sneaky. They're silent and invisible. They creep up on you and invade so deep on the inside that no one on… — Ann Burg Copy Share Image
“Her bladder felt painfully, solidly full, as though it would burst and release not urine but the garbled prayers she was muttering.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“She’d never been any kind of camper, never had been good at relieving a full bladder on a whim. Never had quite figured out… — Robyn Carr Copy Share Image
“It did not eliminate the tumor, but it did restore her missing self-esteem, and that made all the difference in the way she felt.” — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
People probably long for something genuinely personal in a society where the personal is often indistinguishable from the "personalized." Maybe the poetry audience member… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
Like most of my poems, 'Lie' has several sources: I read a very troubling book called The Sixth Extinction. I took note of the… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
Poets tend to form loose groups - the "Romantics" or the "Imagists". And sometimes they write manifestoes in the name of these groups. This… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
The ghosts swarm. They speak as one person. Each has left something undone. — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy. — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
Carried by light, images remain while sensation is so evanescent as to be always beyond belief. — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
