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I have a life that did not become, that turned aside and stopped, astonished
A. R. Ammons
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A. R. Ammons
Age: 75 †
Born: 1926
Born: February 18
Died: 2001
Died: February 26
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Whiteville
North Carolina
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To be saved is here, local and mortal
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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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Though I have looked everywhere / I can find nothing lowly / in the universe.
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