Quotes by A R Ammons

Only silence perfects silence.

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that...

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars...

In nature there are few sharp lines.

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague...

If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we...

If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery,...

I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the...

I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they...

I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it...

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of...

For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain,...