A.R. Ammons Quotes
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A.R. Ammons Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.
Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.