“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.” IfsWantMeanUnits Author: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 closely to yourself as you think or compose and being aware of the different tensions and weights among the words, the different directions any one of them could lead. I like to play with the multiplicity and instability of meaning partly out of a sense of adventure, to see where that takes me and partly in a whistling past the graveyard kind of way because, of course, sensing stable meaning fall away can be scary.” ThinkingWritingKindMeanDifferentSometimesPastFallLanguageAdventureListeningScaryTensionGraveyardMultiplicityInstability Author:Rae Armantrout
“We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean.” MeanHalfDiscourse Author:Rae Armantrout
