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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.
~ A. R. Ammons
Bad
Deduction
Judgement
Laws
May
Objective
Own
Poem
Principles
So-Called
Taste
Terms
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Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
~ A. R. Ammons
Anything
Becomes
Closely
Looked
Wonderful
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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
Actual
Besides
Class
Differs
Discourse
Everything
First
Free
Keeping
Logical
Many
Mode
Poems
Poetry
Reading
Suggest
Teach
Teaching
Things
Two
While
Would
You
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
~ A. R. Ammons
Become
Blank
Definition
Other
Out
Prisons
Rationality
Seeing
Structure
Ways
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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.
~ A. R. Ammons
Becoming
Each
Extensions
Laws
Never
Other
Poem
Poems
Take
Which
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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.
~ A. R. Ammons
Along
Cannot
Day
Day-To-Day
Each
Each Time
Even
Events
Exactly
Exactly The Same
Fears
Health
His
Imagined
Moods
Poet
Route
Same
Sight
Sonnet
Thoughts
Time
Walk
You
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
~ A. R. Ammons
Direct
Direct Experience
Everything
Experience
Instead
Opinion
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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.
~ A. R. Ammons
Certain
Concrete
Large
Limited
Need
Often
Reminded
Restored
Small
Though
Unknown
Unlimited
Vague
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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
Am
Articles
Concerning
Flood
Grateful
I Am
Insight
Keep
Mean
Nature
Poetry
Share
Textbooks
Though
Up
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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.
~ A. R. Ammons
Any
Burning
Go
Man
Nor
Other
Past
Poem
Purpose
Reason
Recognised
Tell
Telling
Where
You
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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
Agents
Appreciate
Change
Clarity
Gradual
Here
Meaning
Must
Necessary
Order
Point
Rationality
Stability
Stress
Structure
Successful
Whatever
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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
Analogy
Between
External
First
First Of All
Interior
Internal
Seeking
Take
Walk
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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
Act
Chance
Disaster
Discovery
Each
Each Time
Fulfillment
Lead
May
Necessarily
New
Poem
Taken
Then
Time
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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
Motions
Must
Stillness
Then
Up
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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
Expect
Linguistic
Music
Poetry
Question
Vague
Words
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
~ A. R. Ammons
Few
Lines
Nature
Sharp
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
~ A. R. Ammons
Alone
Become
Billion
Careless
Four
Galaxy
Hundred
Local
Our
Stars
Too
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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
About
Along
Every
Five
Hundred
Hundred Years
Imagine
Living
Once
Ourselves
Poetry
Statement
Summary
Without
Years
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Only silence perfects silence.
~ A. R. Ammons
Only
Silence
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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.
~ A. R. Ammons
Beings
Leads
Our
Poetry
Rational
Refreshed
Returns
Selves
Sources
Structured
Unknown
Us
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BirthDate
18 February, 1926
DeathDate
25 February, 2001
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