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A. R. Ammons Quotes Page 2 of 2A. R. Ammons Nationality: American Category: Poet Subcategory: American Poet
| Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers. | 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. | 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.' | 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. | 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. | Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take. |
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