Quote by Rae Armantrout Download Open image ““To reinvent anomalous figments.”” — Rae Armantrout ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“To think, analyze and invent are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“To surround anything, however monstrous or ridiculous, with an air of mystery, is to invest it with a secret charm, and power of attraction… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“There was for everything a possibility, an invisible pattern that could be made manifest given work and the right materials.” — Kij Johnson Copy Share Image
“How strange it is beholding this, and, very confident, proclaim that such magnificence occurred by accident.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
“While we go through our lives looking for the puzzle pieces to complete our story, we are unknowingly creating them.” — Garry Fitchett Copy Share Image
“There was a deceptive tangling of alleys that gave the impression of a map that shifted behind you, gargoyles tiptoeing away, stones like puzzle… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“New things, new ideas arrived and strutted their stuff and were vilified by some and then lo! that which had been a monster was… — Terry Pratchett 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
“The feeling of emptiness is a pre-existing condition. Jargon forces intimacy.” — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
