A R Ammons Quotes
Quotebunny has 18 quotations by 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.”
“Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.”
“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.”
“Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.”
“Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.”
“Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.”
“In nature there are few sharp lines.”
“Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.”
“Only silence perfects silence.”
“Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.”
“Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.”
“Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.”
“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 Bio:
Archie Randolph Ammons, (February 18, 1926 – February 25, 2001) was an award-winning American poet.
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