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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
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Whiteville
North Carolina
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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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Things go away to return, brightened for the passage
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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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Though I have looked everywhere / I can find nothing lowly / in the universe.
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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 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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Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
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