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A. R. Ammons

American Poet

Born: Feb 18, 1926

Died: Feb 25, 2001

Change First Laws Other Said You

Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman

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

Interior Walk First Analogy Seeking Take Between First Of All Internal External

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. A. R. Ammons

You Mind Out Find Identity Off Your Keep

If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included. A. R. Ammons

God Stillness Add Must Greatest Motions Up Then Included

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing. A. R. Ammons

Become Other Ways Definition Out Seeing Structure Rationality Blank Prisons

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

Other Poem Laws Poems Take Never Becoming Which Each Extensions

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

You Man Past Other Recognised Tell Telling Poem Purpose Go Nor Any Where Burning Reason

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

Change Stress Whatever Must Clarity Structure Rationality Point Provisional Gradual Stability Order Meaning Agents Successful Necessary Here Appreciate

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