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A R Ammons Inspirational Quotes (38)

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It's not a love of poetry readings that attracts those who do come to them but theater.
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Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up.
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The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.
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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
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In nature there are few sharp lines
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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition
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For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown
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If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
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Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure, loss, error do we discern the savage afflictions that turn us around: where but in the arrangements love crawls us through
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To be saved is here, local and mortal
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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.
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If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
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I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.
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I have reached no conclusions, have erected no boundaries, shutting out and shutting in, separating inside from outside: I have drawn no lines
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The wonderful workings of the world: wonderful, wonderful: I'm surprised half the time
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What destruction have I been blessed by?
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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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.
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
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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.
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