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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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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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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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One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.
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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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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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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 have a life that did not become, that turned aside and stopped, astonished
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Things go away to return, brightened for the passage
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Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
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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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Though I have looked everywhere / I can find nothing lowly / in the universe.
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