A. R. Ammons Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
A. R. Ammons quotes and sayings page 2 (poet). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 26 we have.
“Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.”
“Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.”
“The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.”
“Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.”
“Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.”
“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.”
“Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.”
“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.”
“Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.”
“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.”
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