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