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Top 20 A. R. Ammons Quotes (2025 Update)

A. R. Ammons Quote: “One can’t have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.”

1. “One can’t have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.”

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A. R. Ammons Quote: “Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.”

2. “Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.”

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A. R. Ammons Quote: “Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up.”

3. “Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up.”

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A. R. Ammons Quote: “You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can’t keep your mind OFF.”

4. “You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can’t keep your mind OFF.”

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A. R. Ammons Quote: “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.’”

5. “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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A. R. Ammons Quote: “Things go away to return, brightened for the passage.”

6. “Things go away to return, brightened for the passage.”

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A. R. Ammons Quote: “What destruction have I been blessed by?”

7. “What destruction have I been blessed by?”

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A. R. Ammons Quote: “Only silence perfects silence.”

8. “Only silence perfects silence.”

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A. R. Ammons Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

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A. R. Ammons Quote: “The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.”

10. “The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.”

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A. R. Ammons Quote: “It’s not a love of poetry readings that attracts those who do come to them but theater.”

11. “It’s not a love of poetry readings that attracts those who do come to them but theater.”

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A. R. Ammons Quote: “Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.”

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

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A. R. Ammons Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

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A. R. Ammons Quote: “If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.”

14. “If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.”

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A. R. Ammons Quote: “In nature there are few sharp lines.”

15. “In nature there are few sharp lines.”

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A. R. Ammons Quote: “If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.”

16. “If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.”

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A. R. Ammons Quote: “Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.”

17. “Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.”

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A. R. Ammons Quote: “Thats a wonderful change thats 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.”

18. “Thats a wonderful change thats 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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A. R. Ammons Quote: “Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.”

19. “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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A. R. Ammons Quote: “To be saved is here, local and mortal.”

20. “To be saved is here, local and mortal.”

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A. R. Ammons Quote: “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.”

21. “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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A. R. Ammons Quote: “Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can’t imagine ourselves living without.”

22. “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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