Surprise Quotes 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.

— 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…

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Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up.

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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a…

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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

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The wonderful workings of the world: wonderful, wonderful: I'm surprised half the time

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Though I have looked everywhere / I can find nothing lowly / in the universe.

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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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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.

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Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.

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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

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