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A. R. Ammons

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"Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone."

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"Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience."

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"Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same."

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"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.'"

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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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"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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"Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone."

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"Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience."

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"Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same."

-A. R. Ammons

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"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

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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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"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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"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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"Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed."

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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."

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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."

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"Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition."

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