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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
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University Teacher
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Whiteville
North Carolina
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Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up.
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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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One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.
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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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Only silence perfects silence.
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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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For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown
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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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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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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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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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I have a life that did not become, that turned aside and stopped, astonished
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Though I have looked everywhere / I can find nothing lowly / in the universe.
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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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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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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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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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