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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.

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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