Archibald Randolph Ammons was an American poet and professor of English at Cornell University. Ammons published nearly thirty collections of poems in his lifetime. Wikipedia
Born: February 18, 1926, Whiteville, North Carolina, United States
Died: February 25, 2001 (age 75 years), Ithaca, New York, United States
Awards: Robert Frost Medal, Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry · See more
Siblings: Vida Ammons Cox
Education: Wake Forest University; University of California, Berkeley
Born: February 18, 1926, Whiteville, North Carolina, United States
Died: February 25, 2001 (age 75 years), Ithaca, New York, United States
Awards: Robert Frost Medal, Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry · See more
Siblings: Vida Ammons Cox
Education: Wake Forest University; University of California, Berkeley
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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 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.0 Comentários 0 Compartilhamentos 3K Visualizações 0 Anterior
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.0 Comentários 0 Compartilhamentos 3K Visualizações 0 Anterior
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That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.0 Comentários 0 Compartilhamentos 3K Visualizações 0 Anterior
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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.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.0 Comentários 0 Compartilhamentos 3K Visualizações 0 Anterior
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.0 Comentários 0 Compartilhamentos 3K Visualizações 0 Anterior
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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.0 Comentários 0 Compartilhamentos 3K Visualizações 0 Anterior
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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.0 Comentários 0 Compartilhamentos 3K Visualizações 0 Anterior
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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.0 Comentários 0 Compartilhamentos 3K Visualizações 0 Anterior
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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.0 Comentários 0 Compartilhamentos 3K Visualizações 0 Anterior
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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.0 Comentários 0 Compartilhamentos 3K Visualizações 0 Anterior
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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.0 Comentários 0 Compartilhamentos 3K Visualizações 0 Anterior
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