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There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
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
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Whiteville
North Carolina
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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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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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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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