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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
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Whiteville
North Carolina
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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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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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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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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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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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I have a life that did not become, that turned aside and stopped, astonished
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What destruction have I been blessed by?
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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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One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.
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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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There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
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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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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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Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up.
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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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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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In nature there are few sharp lines
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Though I have looked everywhere / I can find nothing lowly / in the universe.
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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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