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

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A. R. Ammons quotes and sayings page 2 (poet). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 26 we have.

A. R. Ammons Quotes
“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 Quotes
“Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.”
A. R. Ammons Quotes
“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.”
A. R. Ammons Quotes
“Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.”
A. R. Ammons Quotes
“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.”
A. R. Ammons Quotes
“Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.”
A. R. Ammons Quotes
“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 Quotes
“Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.”
A. R. Ammons Quotes
“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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