A. R. Ammons

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A. R. Ammons

Nationality: American

Occupation: Poet

Biography: Archie Randolph Ammons was an American poet who won the annual National Book Award for Poetry in 1973 and 1993. He wrote about humanity's relationship to nature in alternately comic and solemn tones.

A. R. Ammons

“A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.”

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“Anything looked at closely becomes 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.”

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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

Source/Notes: Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues (1996 edition), Univ of Michigan Pr
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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

Source/Notes: Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues (1996 edition), Univ of Michigan Pr
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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.”

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“Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.”

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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.”

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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

Source/Notes: Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues (1996 edition), Univ of Michigan Pr
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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

Source/Notes: Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues (1996 edition), 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.”

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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

Source/Notes: Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues (1996 edition), 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

Source/Notes: Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues (1996 edition), 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.”

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