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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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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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Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up.
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I have a life that did not become, that turned aside and stopped, astonished
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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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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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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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There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
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One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.
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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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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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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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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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If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
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Only silence perfects silence.
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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 white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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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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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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What destruction have I been blessed by?
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