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
years imagine hundred
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without
taken today wonderful
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.
add ifs stillness
If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
grief loss errors
Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure, loss, error do we discern the savage afflictions that turn us around: where but in the arrangements love crawls us through
mortals saved locals
To be saved is here, local and mortal
travel going-away return
Things go away to return, brightened for the passage
lines
In nature there are few sharp lines
want way
One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.
blessed destruction
What destruction have I been blessed by?
self return plenitude
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
life wisdom mind
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.
wonderful
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
silence
Only silence perfects silence.