"the walk liberating, I was released from forms,……" — A. R. Ammons
"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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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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He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall…
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Oh, men and women, pray through; pray through! Do not just begin to pray and pray a little while and…
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Pardon me," I answered, as I placed a bundle of straw upon the fire and slightly stirred it. Then I…
— Unknown Author
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By ecstasy I mean inner joyousness, and by inner joyousness I mean those inspirational fires which burn within the consciousness…
— Walter Russell
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Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man,…
— Hannah More
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Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own. When…
— Ramakrishna
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When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
— Walter Scott
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Human beings are under the control of a strange force that bends them in absurd ways, forcing them to play…
— Jacques Vallee
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The Radiohead record, The Bends is my all-time favorite record on the planet.
— Tommy Lee
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Good steel bends, but never breaks. Good steel stays always sharp and ready. Good steel feels no pain, no pity,…
— Joe Abercrombie
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The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within…
— William Hazlitt
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