A. R. Ammons Quotes - Page 2

• Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure, loss, error do we discern the savage afflictions that turn us around: where but in the arrangements love crawls us through

  A. R. Ammons

  Grief, Loss, Errors

  A.R. Ammons (2013). “Basura y otros poemas”, p.20, LUMEN

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• Thats a wonderful change thats 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.

  A. R. Ammons

  Taken, Today, Wonderful

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• To be saved is here, local and mortal

  A. R. Ammons

  Saved, Locals, Mortals

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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

  A. R. Ammons

  Teaching, Reading, Class

  A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• I have a life that did not become,
  that turned aside and stopped,
  astonished

  A. R. Ammons

  Life

  A.R. Ammons (2013). “Basura y otros poemas”, p.333, LUMEN

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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

  A. R. Ammons

  Years, Imagine, Hundred

  A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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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, Ifs, Stillness

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

  A. R. Ammons

  Half, World, Wonderful

  Archie Randolph Ammons, “Cut The Grass”

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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 bends and blends of sight.

  A. R. Ammons

  Block, Sight, Hue

  A. R. Ammons (1968). “Selected poems”

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• It's not a love of poetry readings that attracts those who do come to them but theater.

  A. R. Ammons

  Reading, Poetry Reading, Theater

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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.

  A. R. Ammons

  Grateful, Mean, Textbooks

  A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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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

  A. R. Ammons

  Taken, Discovery, May

  A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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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 external and the internal.

  A. R. Ammons

  Analogies, Firsts, Walks

  A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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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

  A. R. Ammons

  Attention, Results, Greater

  A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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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 have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.

  A. R. Ammons

  Stress, Successful, Order

  A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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