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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
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University Teacher
Writer
Whiteville
North Carolina
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
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Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values
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Things go away to return, brightened for the passage
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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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The wonderful workings of the world: wonderful, wonderful: I'm surprised half the time
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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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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The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.
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In nature there are few sharp lines
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To be saved is here, local and mortal
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There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
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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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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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Only silence perfects silence.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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