Carried by light, images remain while sensation is so evanescent as to be always beyond belief. - Rae Armantrout - Quotesmemo.com

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The monopoly capitalists - even while employing purely empirical methods - weave around art a complicated web which converts it into a willing tool. The superstructure of society ordains the type of art in which the artist has to be educated. Rebels are subdued by its machinery and only rare talents may create their own work. The rest become shameless hacks or are crushed.

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Rae Armantrout

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

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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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But here I hold your dream in my poem.

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Curled up in bed, I’m young in the old way.

Bed, Curled, Way, Young

As for the differences between audio and the printed page, the sonic aspects of poetry are important to me. I read my poems aloud to myself as I'm composing them. And I enjoy reading to an audience. I think people get tone more easily when they hear a writer read her work. Some people have told me they hear more humor in my poems at a live reading than when they see them on the page. I think that may be a matter of pacing. On the other hand, I've listened to a lot of poetry readings and I know how much you can miss. If you stop to really register one line, you miss the next three or so.

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

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