"Though I have looked everywhere / I can……" — A. R. Ammons
"Though I have looked everywhere / I can find nothing lowly / in the universe."
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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 Everywhere Quotes
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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
— Isaac Asimov
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
— Jane Austen
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The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
— Irving Babbitt
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I like going everywhere. And I love starting new things.
— Antonio Banderas
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Among Muslims, I think there are some who are very good and some hoodlums, like everywhere.
— Brigitte Bardot
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Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although…
— Dave Barry
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The examples of the Obama Administration 'stimulating' jobs everywhere on the planet except here in America are endless.
— Bob Beauprez
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the…
— Beck
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these…
— Harry Belafonte
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I love just how beautiful Vancouver is. I mean, everywhere you look it's just mountains and ocean.
— Emma Bell
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Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are…
— Warren G. Bennis
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This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too,…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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