"Things go away to return, brightened for the…" — A. R. Ammons
"Things go away to return, brightened for the passage"
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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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More Brightened Quotes
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Praying gives sense, brings wisdom, and broadens and strengthens the mind. The prayer closet is a perfect schoolteacher and schoolhouse…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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A smile is often the key thing.One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile. One is…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
— Hector Hugh Munro
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In the afternoon, they stopped to eat on a rocky outcrop. Perry brushed a kiss on her cheek while she…
— Veronica Rossi
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When those deserving of Paradise would enter Paradise, the Blessed and the Exalted would ask: Do you wish Me to…
— Muhammad
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With music, one's whole future life is brightened. This is such a treasure in life that it helps us over…
— Zoltan Kodaly
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The air brightened, the running shadow patches were now the obverse, and it seemed to him that the fact that…
— William Faulkner
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"Jerks," I muttered. Then I brightened. "Oh, hey. Doughnuts."
— Richelle Mead
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The shed of leaves became a cascade of red and gold and after a time the trees stood skeletal against…
— James Carlos Blake
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If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life.
— Astrid Lindgren
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Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the…
— Robert Staughton Lynd
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Divers alarums and excursions', she read, uncertainly. 'That means lots of terrible happenings, said Magrat. 'You always put that in…
— Terry Pratchett
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