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> [Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-r-ammons/besides-the-actual-reading-in-class-of-many-poems-i-would-suggest-you/)

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## 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/)

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> [In nature there are few sharp lines](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-r-ammons/in-nature-there-are-few-sharp-lines/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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