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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
Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone. A. R. Ammons
Alone Become Stars Careless Too Local Our Hundred Galaxy Billion Four
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
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
Nature Grateful Though Insight Poetry Share Concerning Am Textbooks Up Articles Mean Keep Flood
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
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
Time Poem Lead Taken New Disaster Discovery May Then Act Fulfillment Each Each Time Necessarily Chance
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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