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Archibald Randolph Ammons (A. R. Ammons)

2025-02-20 11:38:00 -

In nature there are few sharp lines.

In nature there are few sharp lines.

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Archibald Randolph Ammons (A. R. Ammons)

2025-02-20 11:39:00 -

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.

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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Archibald Randolph Ammons (A. R. Ammons)

2025-02-20 11:40:00 -

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.

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Archibald Randolph Ammons (A. R. Ammons)

2025-02-20 11:41:00 -

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 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.

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Archibald Randolph Ammons (A. R. Ammons)

2025-02-20 11:42:00 -

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

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Archibald Randolph Ammons (A. R. Ammons)

2025-02-20 11:43:00 -

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

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Archibald Randolph Ammons (A. R. Ammons)

2025-02-20 11:44:00 -

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.

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.

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Archibald Randolph Ammons (A. R. Ammons)

2025-02-20 11:45:00 -

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

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

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Archibald Randolph Ammons (A. R. Ammons)

2025-02-20 11:46:00 -

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

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Archibald Randolph Ammons (A. R. Ammons)

2025-02-20 11:47:00 -

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 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.

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