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Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up.

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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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Only silence perfects silence.
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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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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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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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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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To be saved is here, local and mortal
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Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
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What destruction have I been blessed by?
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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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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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If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
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If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'
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Though I have looked everywhere / I can find nothing lowly / in the universe.
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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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The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.
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