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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.
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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Whiteville
North Carolina
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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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Things go away to return, brightened for the passage
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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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To be saved is here, local and mortal
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Only silence perfects silence.
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The wonderful workings of the world: wonderful, wonderful: I'm surprised half the time
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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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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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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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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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It's not a love of poetry readings that attracts those who do come to them but theater.
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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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