Quotes by A. R. Ammons

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.

Judgement

Law

Objectivity

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

Wonderful

Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up.

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Mushrooms

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

Class

Reading

Teaching

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.

Anticipation

Events

Sight

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

Direct

Experience

Opinion

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.

Grateful

Mean

Textbooks

I have a life that did not become, that turned aside and stopped, astonished

Life

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.

Order

Stress

Successful

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.

Analogies

Firsts

Walks

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Blessed

Block

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Direct

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Events

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Favors

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Four

Going Away

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Half

Hiking

Hue

Hundred

I Can

Imagine

Journey

Judgement

Law

Life

Locals

May

Mean

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Mushrooms

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Opinion

Order

Poet

Poetry Reading

Reading

Real

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Quotes by A. R. Ammons

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.

Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up.

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

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.

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

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.

I have a life that did not become, that turned aside and stopped, astonished

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.

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