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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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 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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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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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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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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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 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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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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The wonderful workings of the world: wonderful, wonderful: I'm surprised half the time
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without
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