A. R. Ammons Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Only silence perfects silence.”

“Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.”

“Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.”

“In nature there are few sharp lines.”

“There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.”

“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.”

“If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.”

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

“Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.”