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Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

A. R. Ammons

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A. R. Ammons
Age: 75 †
Born: 1926
Born: February 18
Died: 2001
Died: February 26
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Whiteville
North Carolina
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Wonderful
Anything
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Looked
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The walk liberating, I was released from forms, from the perpendiculars, straight lines, blocks, boxes, binds of thought into the hues, shadings, rises, flowing bends and blends of sight.
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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To be saved is here, local and mortal
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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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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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Though I have looked everywhere / I can find nothing lowly / in the universe.
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A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without
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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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In nature there are few sharp lines
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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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What destruction have I been blessed by?
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Thats a wonderful change thats taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.
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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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There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
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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 am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
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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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Only silence perfects silence.
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Things go away to return, brightened for the passage
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