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A. R. Ammons
American
Poet
Born:
Feb 18
,
1926
Died:
Feb 25
,
2001
Change
First
Laws
Other
Said
You
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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
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
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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