A. R. Ammons
A. R. Ammons
Archie Randolph Ammonswas an American poet who won the annual National Book Award for Poetry in 1973 and 1993...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth18 February 1926
CountryUnited States of America
real world favors
There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
sight events anticipation
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.
grateful mean textbooks
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.
block sight hue
the walk liberating, I was released from forms, from the perpendiculars, straight lines, blocks, boxes, binds of thought into the hues, shadings, rises, flowing bends and blends of sight ...
mushrooms answers
Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up.
i-can universe
Though I have looked everywhere / I can find nothing lowly / in the universe.
life
I have a life that did not become, that turned aside and stopped, astonished
half world wonderful
The wonderful workings of the world: wonderful, wonderful: I'm surprised half the time
acceptance lines boundaries
I have reached no conclusions, have erected no boundaries, shutting out and shutting in, separating inside from outside: I have drawn no lines
numbers shapes patterns
With the first step, the number of shapes the walk might take is infinite, but then the walk begins to define itself as it goes along, though freedom remains total with each step: any tempting side road can be turned into an impulse, or any wild patch of woods can be explored. The pattern of the walk is to come true, is to be recognized, discovered.
circles white sun
The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.
teaching reading class
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
attention results greater
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values
needs unlimited certain
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