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A. R. Ammons has 37 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is…
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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, judgement, deduction.
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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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I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the…
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I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we…
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Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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In nature there are few sharp lines
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This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit.…
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Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence and manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn with tests, deaths, feats, rites, stories, songs, and judgments.
— Jim Morrison
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