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A. R. Ammons has 37 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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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 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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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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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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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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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 other man.…
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot…
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The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone and to no one.
— Edward Abbey
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God is the source of life and light and joy to the universe. Like rays of light from the sun, like the…
— Ellen G. White
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The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.
— A. R. Ammons
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God is resplendently reflected in the souls of His chosen ones, and these pure souls, these images of God, like the transparent…
— John of Kronstadt
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What happens when all the parts of childhood are soldered down, when the young no longer have the time or space to…
— Richard Louv
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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First…
— Plotinus
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and as streams of light fan out behind the darkened sun like the wings of a butterfly, i realize that i never…
— Wendy Mass
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Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it…
— Ruth Brown
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You mean the worl you are my world your evrything I eva needed with yu I'm complete with out yu I'm incomplete,…
— ANDY SIXX
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God is the source of life and light and joy to the universe. Like rays of light from the sun, like the…
— Ellen G. White
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