Book Quote 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…

— Rae Armantrout

“this route is only one of several imaginary paths.”

— Rae Armantrout

“To reinvent anomalous figments.”

— Rae Armantrout

I know you by your willingness.

— 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…

— Rae Armantrout

“The jacaranda, for instance, is beautiful but not serious.”

— 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…

— Rae Armantrout

“Evening succeeds evening.”

— Rae Armantrout

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

— Rae Armantrout

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

— Rae Armantrout

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

— Rae Armantrout

“The feeling of emptiness is a pre-existing condition. Jargon forces intimacy.”

— Rae Armantrout