Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values. A. R. Ammons Read Quote
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. A. R. Ammons Read Quote
If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included. A. R. Ammons Read Quote
If we ask a vague question, such as, ‘What is poetry?’ we expect a vague answer, such as, ‘Poetry is the music of words,’ or ‘Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.’ A. R. Ammons Read Quote
Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone. A. R. Ammons Read Quote
A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction. A. R. Ammons Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. A. R. Ammons Read Quote
