--- title: "1 Poetry Today Quotes By A. R. Ammons" description: "1 Poetry Today quotes by A. R. Ammons. Plus more from A. R. Ammons and more Poetry Today sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c4/a-r-ammons-19072_change_that-s-a-wonderful-change-that-s-taken-p_1201676.png" --- > [That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-r-ammons/that-s-a-wonderful-change-that-s-taken-place-and-so-most-poetry-today/) [A. R. Ammons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-r-ammons/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c4/a-r-ammons-19072_change_that-s-a-wonderful-change-that-s-taken-p_1201676.png) ## More by A. R. Ammons > [A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-r-ammons/a-poem-generated-by-its-own-laws-may-be-unrealized-and-bad-in-terms/) [A. R. Ammons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-r-ammons/) > [In nature there are few sharp lines](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-r-ammons/in-nature-there-are-few-sharp-lines/) [A. R. Ammons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-r-ammons/) > [With the first step, the number of shapes the walk might take is infinite, but then the walk begins to define itself as it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-r-ammons/with-the-first-step-the-number-of-shapes-the-walk-might-take-is/) [A. R. Ammons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-r-ammons/) > [Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-r-ammons/attend-to-mushrooms-and-all-other-things-will-answer-up/) [A. R. Ammons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-r-ammons/) > [The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-r-ammons/the-poet-exposes-himself-to-the-risk-all-that-has-been-said-about/) [A. R. Ammons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-r-ammons/) > [I have reached no conclusions, have erected no boundaries, shutting out and shutting in, separating inside from outside: I have drawn no lines](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-r-ammons/i-have-reached-no-conclusions-have-erected-no-boundaries-shutting-out/) [A. R. Ammons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-r-ammons/) > [The wonderful workings of the world: wonderful, wonderful: I'm surprised half the time](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-r-ammons/the-wonderful-workings-of-the-world-wonderful-wonderful-i-m-surprised/) [A. R. Ammons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-r-ammons/) > [Though I have looked everywhere / I can find nothing lowly / in the universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-r-ammons/though-i-have-looked-everywhere-i-can-find-nothing-lowly-in-the/) [A. R. Ammons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-r-ammons/) > [Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-r-ammons/definition-rationality-and-structure-are-ways-of-seeing-but-they/) [A. R. Ammons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-r-ammons/) > [You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-r-ammons/you-have-your-identity-when-you-find-out-not-what-you-can-keep-your/) [A. R. Ammons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-r-ammons/) > [Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-r-ammons/questions-structure-and-so-to-some-extent-predetermine-answers/) [A. R. Ammons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-r-ammons/) > [Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-r-ammons/everything-is-discursive-opinion-instead-of-direct-experience/) [A. R. Ammons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-r-ammons/) > [Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-r-ammons/even-if-you-walk-exactly-the-same-route-each-time-as-with-a-sonnet/) [A. R. Ammons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-r-ammons/) > [For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-r-ammons/for-though-we-often-need-to-be-restored-to-the-small-concrete-limited/) [A. R. Ammons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-r-ammons/the-walk-liberating-i-was-released-from-forms-from-the-perpendiculars/) [A. R. Ammons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-r-ammons/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poetry-today/a-r-ammons/#itemlist", "name": "1 Poetry Today Quotes By A. R. 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