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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.

~A. R. Ammons

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A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

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Topics: Bad Deduction Judgement Laws May Objective Own Poem Principles So-Called Taste Terms

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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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Topics: Analogy Between External First First Of All Interior Internal Seeking Take Walk

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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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Topics: Attention Directed Greater Lesser More Often Poetry Results Some Than Though Value Values

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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.

~A. R. Ammons

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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.

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Topics: About Along Every Five Hundred Hundred Years Imagine Living Once Ourselves Poetry Statement Summary Without Years

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

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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.

~A. R. Ammons

Topics: Becoming Each Extensions Laws Never Other Poem Poems Take Which

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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.

~A. R. Ammons

Topics: Act Chance Disaster Discovery Each Each Time Fulfillment Lead May Necessarily New Poem Taken Then Time

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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.

~A. R. Ammons

Topics: Beings Leads Our Poetry Rational Refreshed Returns Selves Sources Structured Unknown Us

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: February 18th, 1926

Died: February 25th, 2001

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