"Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing,……" — A. R. Ammons
"Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing."
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38 Quotes by A. R. Ammons
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- Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
- The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about…
- A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste,…
- Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never…
- I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all…
- Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured…
- There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
- I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any…
- Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the…
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