02UndatedPoetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.A.R. Ammons / quote ↗
04UndatedI’ve pressed sofar away frommy desire thatif you askedme what Iwant I would,accepting the harmoniouscompletion of thedrift, say annihilation,probably.A.R. Ammons / quote ↗
05UndatedThere's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.A.R. Ammons / quote ↗
08UndatedEven 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 / quote ↗
09UndatedIs it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.A.R. Ammons / quote ↗
