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The oppressed grows weightless: doze/n th/rough c/and/or man/aged leg/ions stud/ents — A.R. Ammons

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing. — A.R. Ammons

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. — A.R. Ammons

In nature there are few sharp lines. — A.R. Ammons

What destruction have I been blessed by? — A.R. Ammons

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage — A.R. Ammons

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take. — A.R. Ammons

Only silence perfects silence. — A.R. Ammons

I have a life that did not become,
that turned aside and stopped,
astonished — A.R. Ammons

The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole. — A.R. Ammons

To be saved is here, local and mortal — A.R. Ammons

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful. — A.R. Ammons

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without. — A.R. Ammons

The wonderful workings of the world: wonderful,
wonderful: I'm surprised half the time — A.R. Ammons

It's not a love of poetry readings that attracts those who do come to them but theater. — A.R. Ammons

One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it. — A.R. Ammons

Though I have looked everywhere / I can find nothing lowly / in the universe. — A.R. Ammons

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. — A.R. Ammons

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. — A.R. Ammons

If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included. — A.R. Ammons

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience. — A.R. Ammons

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. — A.R. Ammons

Plant the seed whose vine or tree may hang you. — A.R. Ammons

The reeds give
way to the
wind and give
the wind away — A.R. Ammons

Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up. — A.R. Ammons

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values. — A.R. Ammons

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone. — A.R. Ammons

Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers. — A.R. Ammons

There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world. — A.R. Ammons

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction. — A.R. Ammons