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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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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition
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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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Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values
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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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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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Things go away to return, brightened for the passage
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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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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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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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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.
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What destruction have I been blessed by?
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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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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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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 wonderful workings of the world: wonderful, wonderful: I'm surprised half the time
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The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.
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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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I have a life that did not become, that turned aside and stopped, astonished
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