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"There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world."

— 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…
Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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,…
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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…
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…
I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that…

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I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles -… — Richard Armitage
Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid… — Margaret Atwood
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. — Jane Austen
Being from Texas, I would say I favor a pair of jeans you can wear some boots with. — Jensen Ackles
People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale,… — John Bolton
I have certain physical features that I favor over others. We all have our areas. — Christina Aguilera
As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived… — Jean de la Bruyere
I'm in favor of changing the destination of humans. There are a lot of manned missions that can be done,… — Buzz Aldrin
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us… — George Carlin
The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor… — Hank Aaron
A work of real merit finds favor at last. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything. — Martin Luther

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