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21 A. R. Ammons Quotes & Sayings
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21 A. R. Ammons Quotes & Sayings
American
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Born: 18 February 1926. Died: 25 February 2001 |
Poet
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A. R. Ammons
Silence
Perfects
Silence
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If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'
A. R. Ammons
Answer
Ask
Correction
Disorder
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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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Find
Identity
Keep
Mind
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If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
A. R. Ammons
Add
God
Greatest
Included
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A. R. Ammons
Direct
Everything
Experience
Instead
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Alone
Become
Billion
Careless
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A. R. Ammons
Few
Lines
Nature
Sharp
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Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
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Attention
Directed
Greater
Lesser
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I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
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Articles
Concerning
Flood
Grateful
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Along
Every
Five
Hundred
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Anything
Becomes
Closely
Looked
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For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.
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Certain
Concrete
Large
Limited
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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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Become
Blank
Definition
Other
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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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Becoming
Each
Extensions
Laws
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If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
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Act
Chance
Disaster
Discovery
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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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Beings
Leads
Our
Poetry
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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 partial assurance.
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Assurance
Been
Himself
Learned
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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.
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Certainly
Change
Directly
Enterprise
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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. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
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Burning
Other
Past
Poem
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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Along
Cannot
Day
Each
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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.
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Actual
Besides
Class
Differs
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A. R. Ammons Quotes & Sayings