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A. 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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