Quotes by A R Ammons

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the...

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank...

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two...

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of...

You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind...

#Identity

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

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all...

That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if...

Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more...

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns...