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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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It's not a love of poetry readings that attracts those who do come to them but theater.
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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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The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.
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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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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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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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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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There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
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The wonderful workings of the world: wonderful, wonderful: I'm surprised half the time
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I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.
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I have a life that did not become, that turned aside and stopped, astonished
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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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Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up.
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