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Versed

Rae Armantrout

Top 10 Best Quotes

“I know you by your willingness.”

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

“So much happiness is caged in language, ready to burst out anytime and fade”

“Metaphor forms a crust beneath which the crevasse of each experience.”

“I'm composed largely of what the streets and rooms look like, of how to arrive 'just' here.”

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

“We sleep together in the dark but confuse light with love.”

“Simple Complex systems can arise from simple rules. It's not that we want to survive,it's that we've been drugged and made to act as if we do while all the while the sea breaks and rolls, painlessly, under. If we're not copying it, we're lonely. Is this the knowledge that demands to be passed down? Time is made from swatches of heaven and hell. If we're not killing it, we're hungry.”

“Now light sits in the chairs”

“Mozart creates a universe out of pleasantries.”

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Book Keywords:

survival, time, life

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