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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
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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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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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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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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I have a life that did not become, that turned aside and stopped, astonished
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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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